WRITER

Hilaire Belloc

1870 - 1953

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Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, French: [ilɛːʁ bɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a French-English writer, politician, and historian. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hilaire Belloc has received more than 1,165,797 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Hilaire Belloc is the 2,569th most popular writer (up from 2,680th in 2019), the 2,807th most popular biography from France (up from 2,867th in 2019) and the 355th most popular French Writer.

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  • 1.2M

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  • 54.27

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The bad child's book of beasts
Animals, Juvenile poetry, Children's poetry, English
Bad
On something
English essays
On nothing & kindred subjects
The historic Thames
Accessible book, Description and travel, Economic conditions
The Path to Rome
Accessible book, Description and travel, Journeys
Hills and the sea
Description and travel, Journeys, Travel

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hilaire Belloc ranks 2,569 out of 7,302Before him are Ouida, Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari, Janus Pannonius, John Aubrey, L. Sprague de Camp, and George Mosse. After him are Nodar Dumbadze, Wilhelm Worringer, Anne Holt, Théophile de Viau, John Millington Synge, and Dionysius Periegetes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Hilaire Belloc ranks 80Before him are Masabumi Hosono, Géza Maróczy, Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Joseph Strauss, Ada Negri, and Osachi Hamaguchi. After him are Peter Struve, Dirk Jan de Geer, Enric Prat de la Riba, Dadasaheb Phalke, Motobu Chōki, and John Boland. Among people deceased in 1953, Hilaire Belloc ranks 75Before him are Nikolay Zelinsky, Helene Mayer, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Sergey Belyavsky, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, and Jim Thorpe. After him are Dámaso Berenguer, Holger Pedersen, Joseph Jongen, Alexander Vasiliev, Lev Mekhlis, and Ernst Reuter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hilaire Belloc ranks 2,807 out of 6,770Before him are Claire Lacombe (1765), Théophraste Renaudot (1586), Louis Claude Richard (1754), Seán MacBride (1904), Nicolas Baudin (1754), and Charles Mangin (1866). After him are Jules Dalou (1838), François Hanriot (1761), Auguste Laurent (1807), André Beauneveu (1330), Conon de Béthune (1150), and Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro (1944).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Hilaire Belloc ranks 355Before him are Walter of Châtillon (1135), Gustave Aimard (1818), René Crevel (1900), Bernard Werber (1961), André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909), and Catulle Mendès (1841). After him are Théophile de Viau (1590), Menasseh Ben Israel (1604), Paschasius Radbertus (792), Varro Atacinus (-82), Jules Guesde (1845), and Mirra Alfassa (1878).