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Guillaume de Lorris

1200 - 1238

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Guillaume de Lorris (c. 1200 – c. 1240) was a French scholar and poet from Lorris. He was the author of the first section of the Roman de la Rose. Little is known about him, other than that he wrote the earlier section of the poem around 1230, and that the work was completed forty years later by Jean de Meun. He is only known by mention of Jean de Meun, (de Meung in French), in Roman de la Rose.de Lorris' poem was translated into Middle English verse by Chaucer, and into Modern English verse by F. S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume de Lorris has received more than 57,709 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Guillaume de Lorris is the 1,502nd most popular writer (up from 1,711th in 2019), the 1,752nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,938th in 2019) and the 218th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 58k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le Roman de la Rose / Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meun
1949
Roman de la Rose 5 tomes
1999
Le Romance De La Rose
1998
Roman de la Rose
Alchemy, Bookbinding, Courtly love
1493
Le Roman De LA Rose (Medieval French Literature Series)
1967
Le roman de la rose
1864

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Over the past year Guillaume de Lorris has had the most page views in the with 7,254 views, followed by French (4,900), and Italian (1,854). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (121.82%), Bulgarian (121.65%), and Ukrainian (101.16%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Guillaume de Lorris ranks 1,502 out of 7,302. Before him are Salvian, B. K. S. Iyengar, Nora Roberts, Georges Duhamel, Ibn al-Khatib, and Elsa Beskow. After him are Aksel Sandemose, Henry de Montherlant, Jacopo Sannazaro, Olaus Petri, Jonas Mekas, and George of Pisidia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1200, Guillaume de Lorris ranks 18. Before him are Shiban, Joan, Countess of Flanders, George III of Georgia, Mstislav II of Kiev, Canute II of Sweden, and Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. After him are Sayf al-Din Ghazi I, Anonymus, Marcabru, Nicholas Kanabos, Hadewijch, and Michael I Komnenos Doukas. Among people deceased in 1238, Guillaume de Lorris ranks 3. Before him are Al-Kamil, and Henry the Bearded. After him are Yuri II of Vladimir, John I of Trebizond, and Joan of England, Queen of Scotland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume de Lorris ranks 1,752 out of 6,770. Before him are Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (1197), Georges Duhamel (1884), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), and Jean-Charles de Borda (1733). After him are Gérard Houllier (1947), Henry de Montherlant (1895), Diane de France (1538), Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (1643), Albin Lermusiaux (1874), and Louise Labé (1524).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Guillaume de Lorris ranks 218. Before him are Francis Jammes (1868), René Char (1907), Tomi Ungerer (1931), Adam de la Halle (1245), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), and Georges Duhamel (1884). After him are Henry de Montherlant (1895), Louise Labé (1524), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Anne Desclos (1907), and Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880).

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