WRITER

Jean d'Ormesson

1925 - 2017

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Count Jean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French writer and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean d'Ormesson has received more than 252,122 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean d'Ormesson is the 2,248th most popular writer (down from 1,938th in 2019), the 2,514th most popular biography from France (down from 2,184th in 2019) and the 318th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Tous les hommes en sont fous
Une autre histoire de la littérature française
French literature, History and criticism
Le vent du soir
La Gloire de l'Empire
Fiction, History
Histoire du juif errant
Mon dernier rêve sera pour vous
Biography, French Authors, Relations with women

Page views of Jean d'Ormessons by language

Over the past year Jean d'Ormesson has had the most page views in the with 207,020 views, followed by English (19,366), and Spanish (4,845). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (82.05%), Latin (72.06%), and Mazandarani (65.71%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean d'Ormesson ranks 2,248 out of 7,302Before him are Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, Johan Bojer, Andreas Capellanus, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Silva Kaputikyan, and Emmanuel Carrère. After him are Harlan Coben, Pjetër Bogdani, Mukaghali Makatayev, Eric Knight, Francesc Eiximenis, and Georges Ohnet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Jean d'Ormesson ranks 141Before him are Flannery O'Connor, Maurice Pialat, Pavel Belyayev, Aldo Ciccolini, Art Pepper, and René Moawad. After him are Roger Hanin, Jean Raspail, Solomon Perel, M. S. Swaminathan, François-Xavier Ortoli, and Klaus Roth. Among people deceased in 2017, Jean d'Ormesson ranks 143Before him are Daliah Lavi, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Veljo Tormis, Charles Robert Jenkins, Stephen Paddock, and Baldwin Lonsdale. After him are Aleksey Batalov, Todor Veselinović, Don Rickles, Manuel Sanchís Martínez, Charles Bachman, and Umberto Lenzi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean d'Ormesson ranks 2,514 out of 6,770Before him are Antoine Gombaud (1607), Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053), Elisabeth of Lorraine (1574), Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1324), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), and Emmanuel Carrère (1957). After him are Adolphe Nourrit (1802), Carolus-Duran (1837), Michel de l'Hôpital (1505), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), Zaz (1980), and Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (1940).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean d'Ormesson ranks 318Before him are Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), Renaud Camus (1946), Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), and Emmanuel Carrère (1957). After him are Georges Ohnet (1848), Édouard Drumont (1844), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), Henri Desgrange (1865), Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713), and Jean Raspail (1925).