WRITER

Madame d'Aulnoy

1651 - 1705

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Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1650/1651 – 14 January 1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was a French author known for her literary fairy tales. Her 1697 collection Les Contes des Fées (Fairy Tales) coined the literary genre's name and included the first story to feature "Prince Charmant" or Prince Charming. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madame d'Aulnoy has received more than 264,355 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Madame d'Aulnoy is the 1,521st most popular writer (up from 1,547th in 2019), the 1,766th most popular biography from France (up from 1,779th in 2019) and the 221st most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Memoirs of the court of England in 1675
Court and courtiers, History, Social life and customs
1913
Contes des fées
Criticism and interpretation, Fairy tales
1708
The history of Fortunio and his famous companions
1810
Relation du voyage d'Espagne
1691
Beauty and the beast
Fairy tales, Folklore, France
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
1984
Mémoires de la cour d'Espagne
Accessible book
1690

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 1,521 out of 7,302. Before her are J. G. Ballard, Semonides of Amorgos, Ahmed Shawqi, Hugo Claus, Diagoras of Melos, and Laonikos Chalkokondyles. After her are Eduard Mörike, Vasil Bykaŭ, Camilla Läckberg, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Edward Albee, and Juan Goytisolo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1651, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 8. Before her are François Fénelon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, William Dampier, Natalya Naryshkina, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, and Engelbert Kaempfer. After her are Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, Dimitry of Rostov, Johann Krieger, and William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1705, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 10. Before her are Ninon de l'Enclos, Luca Giordano, Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Catherine of Braganza, John Ray, and Philipp Spener. After her are Pierre Beauchamp, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Guillaume Amontons, Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Bada Shanren, and Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 1,766 out of 6,770. Before her are Jules Breton (1827), Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Charlotte of Albret (1480), Blanche of Bourbon (1339), and Gersonides (1288). After her are La Goulue (1866), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), and Anne Desclos (1907).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 221. Before her are Adam de la Halle (1245), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Georges Duhamel (1884), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Henry de Montherlant (1895), and Louise Labé (1524). After her are Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Anne Desclos (1907), Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880), Raymond Roussel (1877), Antoine de Montchrestien (1575), and Marcel Achard (1899).

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