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Jean de La Fontaine

1621 - 1695

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Jean de La Fontaine (UK: , US: , French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages. After a long period of royal suspicion, he was admitted to the French Academy and his reputation in France has never faded since. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean de La Fontaine has received more than 903,859 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean de La Fontaine is the 92nd most popular writer (up from 120th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from France (up from 128th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Writer.

Jean de la Fontaine is most famous for his fables, which are short stories with animal characters.

Memorability Metrics

  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean de La Fontaine ranks 92 out of 5,755. Before him are Heinrich Heine, Selma Lagerlöf, Virginia Woolf, Maxim Gorky, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Lewis Carroll. After him are Knut Hamsun, George Bernard Shaw, George Sand, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ismail I, and José Saramago.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Jean de La Fontaine ranks 1. After him are Louis, Grand Condé, Guru Tegh Bahadur, George II Rákóczi, Thomas Willis, Amakusa Shirō, Petar Zrinski, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, Isaac van Ostade, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, and Allaert van Everdingen. Among people deceased in 1695, Jean de La Fontaine ranks 2. Before him is Christiaan Huygens. After him are Ahmed II, Henry Purcell, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Johann Ambrosius Bach, Zumbi, Pierre Mignard, Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Thomas Tew, and Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean de La Fontaine ranks 93 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Napoleon II (1811), Jean-François Champollion (1790), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), and Maurice Ravel (1875). After him are Madame de Pompadour (1721), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry II of France (1519), Philip V of Spain (1683), Peter Abelard (1079), and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean de La Fontaine ranks 20. Before him are Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), Romain Rolland (1866), and Marquis de Sade (1740). After him are George Sand (1804), André Gide (1869), Nicolas Flamel (1330), Anatole France (1844), François Rabelais (1494), and François Villon (1431).

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