WRITER

Louis-Sébastien Mercier

1740 - 1814

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Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel L'An 2440 is an example of proto-science fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis-Sébastien Mercier has received more than 122,223 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-Sébastien Mercier is the 1,815th most popular writer (up from 1,867th in 2019), the 2,059th most popular biography from France (up from 2,101st in 2019) and the 257th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

An deux mille quatre cent quarante
Utopias, Fiction, Social life and customs
1772
L' an deux mille quatre cent quarante
Early works to 1800, Utopias, Future in literature
1771
Tableau de Paris
Accessible book, Description, Description and travel
1781
L' indigent
1772
La brouette du vinaigrier
Plays
1775
Le nouveau Paris
French Personal narratives, History, Influence
1798

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 1,815 out of 7,302. Before him are Petros Markaris, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Theophylact of Ohrid, Martin of Opava, Josep Pla, and Agnes Smedley. After him are Masaoka Shiki, Theodor Nöldeke, Juan Carlos Onetti, Frederik Pohl, Gregory Tsamblak, and Rodulfus Glaber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 13. Before him are Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. After him are Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, James Boswell, John Latham, Matthias Claudius, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, and Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine. Among people deceased in 1814, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 12. Before him are Benjamin Thompson, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, and Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Arthur Phillip, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Aleijadinho, Georg Joseph Vogler, Matthew Flinders, and Elbridge Gerry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 2,059 out of 6,770. Before him are Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), David Ginola (1967), Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723), Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), Amédée Ozenfant (1886), and Eugène Carrière (1849). After him are Paul Virilio (1932), Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540), Marie Victoire de Noailles (1688), Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749), Laurent Fignon (1960), and Robert Estienne (1503).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 257. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808), Joseph Joubert (1754), Gottfried von Strassburg (1180), Michel Zevaco (1860), Gabriel Naudé (1600), and Albert Gleizes (1881). After him are Rodulfus Glaber (985), Prosper of Aquitaine (390), Elif Shafak (1971), Pierre Lemaitre (1951), Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960), and Théodore de Banville (1823).

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