WRITER

Jacques Prévert

1900 - 1977

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Jacques Prévert (French: [ʒak pʁevɛʁ]; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Prévert has received more than 596,380 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Jacques Prévert is the 398th most popular writer (down from 353rd in 2019), the 468th most popular biography from France (down from 402nd in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Writer.

Jacques Prévert is most famous for his poems.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Histoires et d'autres histoires
1963
Spectacle
1949
La pluie et le beau temps
1955
Fatras
1966
Histoires
1946
Hebdromadaires
Authors, French, French Authors, Interviews
1972
Histoires
French poetry, Fiction, general
1946
La pluie et le beau temps
1955
Fatras
1966
Paroles
French poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
1945
Spectacle
Théâtre (genre littéraire) français, Poésie française, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
1949

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques Prévert ranks 398 out of 7,302. Before him are Sándor Márai, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Ghalib, Sándor Petőfi, Erich von Däniken, and O. Henry. After him are Raymond Chandler, Pietro Aretino, Ismail Kadare, Ágota Kristóf, Edmondo De Amicis, and Henning Mankell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Jacques Prévert ranks 19. Before him are Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Spencer Tracy, Dennis Gabor, and Sándor Márai. After him are Charles Francis Richter, Urho Kekkonen, Eyvind Johnson, Hans Fritzsche, Giorgos Seferis, and Hans Adolf Krebs. Among people deceased in 1977, Jacques Prévert ranks 12. Before him are Anthony Eden, Stefania Turkewich, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, René Goscinny, and Roberto Rossellini. After him are Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Makarios III, Alexey Stakhanov, Kurt Schuschnigg, Anaïs Nin, and Ernst Bloch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Prévert ranks 468 out of 6,770. Before him are François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Jeanne Moreau (1928), Annie Girardot (1931), André Derain (1880), Eugène Boudin (1824), and Stephen, King of England (1095). After him are Isabelle Adjani (1955), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Alfred Kastler (1902), René Guénon (1886), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques Prévert ranks 69. Before him are Paul Éluard (1895), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Georges Bataille (1897), Jean Genet (1910), and Gregory of Tours (538). After him are René Guénon (1886), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), Alfred de Musset (1810), Patrick Modiano (1945), William of Rubruck (1220), and Hector Malot (1830).

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