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Liane de Pougy

1869 - 1950

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Liane de Pougy (born Anne-Marie Chassaigne, 2 July 1869 – 26 December 1950) was a French dancer, courtesan and novelist. She was a Folies Bergère vedette, and was known as one of the most beautiful and notorious courtesans in Paris. Later in life, she became a Dominican tertiary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Liane de Pougy has received more than 270,239 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Liane de Pougy is the 32nd most popular dancer (down from 25th in 2019), the 1,858th most popular biography from France (down from 1,558th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Dancer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

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  • 63.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Liane de Pougy ranks 32 out of 116. Before her are Olga Khokhlova, Filippo Taglioni, La Goulue, Mary Wigman, August Bournonville, and Pierre Beauchamp. After her are Alexander Godunov, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Agrippina Vaganova, Lev Ivanov, Roland Petit, and Jules Perrot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Liane de Pougy ranks 50. Before her are Else Lasker-Schüler, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Giulio Douhet, Hjalmar Söderberg, and Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din. After her are Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Hans Pfitzner, Valdemar Poulsen, and Stanisław Wyspiański. Among people deceased in 1950, Liane de Pougy ranks 53. Before her are Vasil Kolarov, Jan Smuts, Charles Koechlin, Salvatore Giuliano, Adam Rainer, and Grigory Kulik. After her are Rafael Sabatini, Alfred Korzybski, Alma Karlin, Agnes Smedley, Kim Kyu-sik, and Henry H. Arnold.

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In France

Among people born in France, Liane de Pougy ranks 1,858 out of 6,770. Before her are Raoul Salan (1899), Camille Doncieux (1847), Le Pétomane (1857), Étienne Méhul (1763), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), and Pierre Bergé (1930). After her are Édouard Roche (1820), Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758), Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911), Charles Paul de Kock (1793), Amandus (600), and Robert Desnos (1900).

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Among DANCERS In France

Among dancers born in France, Liane de Pougy ranks 6. Before her are Marius Petipa (1818), Maurice Béjart (1927), Jean-Georges Noverre (1727), La Goulue (1866), and Pierre Beauchamp (1631). After her are Roland Petit (1924), Jules Perrot (1810), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), Arthur Saint-Léon (1821), Micheline Bernardini (1927), and Jean Coralli (1779).

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