DANCER

La Goulue

1866 - 1929

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La Goulue (French pronunciation: [la guly], meaning The Glutton), was the stage name of Louise Weber (12 July 1866 – 29 January 1929), a French can-can dancer who was a star of the Moulin Rouge, a popular cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre. Weber became known as La Goulue because as an adolescent, she was known for guzzling cabaret patrons' drinks while dancing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of La Goulue has received more than 366,952 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. La Goulue is the 28th most popular dancer, the 1,767th most popular biography from France (down from 1,717th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Dancer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, La Goulue ranks 28 out of 116. Before her are Alicia Alonso, Carlo Blasis, Izumo no Okuni, Bronislava Nijinska, Olga Khokhlova, and Filippo Taglioni. After her are Mary Wigman, August Bournonville, Pierre Beauchamp, Liane de Pougy, Alexander Godunov, and Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, La Goulue ranks 39. Before her are Leopold Mandić, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, August von Wassermann, Francesco Cilea, Adrien de Gerlache, and Dmitry Merezhkovsky. After her are Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, Alikhan Bukeikhanov, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, Franz von Bayros, and Emile Vandervelde. Among people deceased in 1929, La Goulue ranks 38. Before her are Asa Griggs Candler, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Liang Qichao, Tanaka Giichi, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Oldfield Thomas. After her are Rainis, Maurice Sarrail, Aletta Jacobs, Manuel Gomes da Costa, Enrico Ferri, and Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia.

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In France

Among people born in France, La Goulue ranks 1,767 out of 6,770. Before her are Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Charlotte of Albret (1480), Blanche of Bourbon (1339), Gersonides (1288), and Madame d'Aulnoy (1651). After her are Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Anne Desclos (1907), and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643).

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Among DANCERS In France

Among dancers born in France, La Goulue ranks 4. Before her are Marius Petipa (1818), Maurice Béjart (1927), and Jean-Georges Noverre (1727). After her are Pierre Beauchamp (1631), Liane de Pougy (1869), Roland Petit (1924), Jules Perrot (1810), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), Arthur Saint-Léon (1821), Micheline Bernardini (1927), and Jean Coralli (1779).

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