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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 113,276 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Louis-Sébastien Mercier is the 1,872nd most popular writer (down from 1,827th in 2019), the 2,108th most popular biography from France (down from 2,010th in 2019) and the 263rd most popular French Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 1,872 out of 5,755. Before him are Pjetër Bogdani, Trygve Gulbranssen, Alex Haley, Luis de León, Lydia Koidula, and Vasile Alecsandri. After him are Oliver Goldsmith, Jacint Verdaguer, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Mukaghali Makatayev, Ruan Ji, and Ibn al-Farid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 13. Before him are Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Carl Michael Bellman, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann van Beethoven, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. After him are Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, James Boswell, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Matthias Claudius, and Juan Ignacio Molina. Among people deceased in 1814, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 13. Before him are Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Matthew Flinders. After him are Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, Georg Joseph Vogler, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Aleijadinho, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, and Arthur Phillip.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 2,108 out of 6,011. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (1582), Maurice de Sully (1110), Joseph Darnand (1897), Maurice André (1933), and Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (1557). After him are Léon Duguit (1859), Émile Friant (1863), Théodore Dubois (1837), Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414), Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207), and Louis Couturat (1868).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 263. Before him are Yvan Goll (1891), Michel Zevaco (1860), Étienne Dolet (1509), Tristan Corbière (1845), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), and Marquis de Custine (1790). After him are Augustin Barruel (1741), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Julien Gracq (1910), Philippe Quinault (1635), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1669).

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