WRITER

Madame de La Fayette

1634 - 1693

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Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madame de La Fayette has received more than 241,071 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Madame de La Fayette is the 597th most popular writer (up from 906th in 2019), the 696th most popular biography from France (up from 1,064th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular French Writer.

Madame de la Fayette is most famous for her novel, La Princesse de Clèves.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Romans et nouvelles
1800
The Princess of Cleves
Fiction
1679
Mme de La Fayette par elle-même
1959
La princesse de Clèves
1678
Zaïde
1678
Vie de la princesse d'Angleterre
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Madame de La Fayette ranks 597 out of 7,302. Before her are Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ellen G. White, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Ismail Gaspirali, Theodore Dreiser, and John Donne. After her are Hermann Broch, Napoleon Hill, Lion Feuchtwanger, Karl Kraus, Judah Halevi, and Pierre Loti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1634, Madame de La Fayette ranks 3. Before her are Kara Mustafa Pasha, and Mariana of Austria. After her are Luca Giordano, Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, Nicolaes Maes, Hümaşah Sultan, Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and Balthasar Bekker. Among people deceased in 1693, Madame de La Fayette ranks 2. Before her is Mehmed IV. After her are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Willem Kalf, Ihara Saikaku, Nicolaes Maes, Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Elisabeth Hevelius, and John de Britto.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame de La Fayette ranks 696 out of 6,770. Before her are Anne of Foix-Candale (1484), Louise of Savoy (1476), Éliphas Lévi (1810), Darius Milhaud (1892), Maurice Allais (1911), and Jean-Henri Fabre (1823). After her are Raymond Aron (1905), François Jacob (1920), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Pierre Loti (1850), Maurice Gamelin (1872), and Pierre Bonnard (1867).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Madame de La Fayette ranks 103. Before her are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Georges Perec (1936), Ausonius (310), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), and Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922). After her are Pierre Loti (1850), Madame Roland (1754), Raymond Queneau (1903), Eugène Sue (1804), Frontinus (30), and Marie de France (1101).

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