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WRITER

Marcel Pagnol

1895 - 1974

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Marcel Paul Pagnol (, also US: pah-NYAWL; French: [maʁsɛl pɔl paɲɔl]; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Pagnol has received more than 487,627 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Marcel Pagnol is the 1,070th most popular writer (down from 999th in 2019), the 1,246th most popular biography from France (down from 1,131st in 2019) and the 159th most popular French Writer.

Marcel Pagnol is most famous for his play "Marcel Pagnol's The Baker's Wife" and his novels "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring."

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  • 490k

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  • 60.45

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  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marcel Pagnol ranks 1,070 out of 5,755Before him are Cormac McCarthy, Kazi Nazrul Islam, W. H. Auden, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Madeleine de Scudéry, and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. After him are Sulpicius Severus, Mercè Rodoreda, Edith Wharton, Egeria, Cai Yan, and Sergey Mikhalkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Marcel Pagnol ranks 69Before him are Friedrich Jeckeln, Vinoba Bhave, Kurt Zeitzler, André Frédéric Cournand, Lewis Milestone, and Robert Graves. After him are Wilhelm Gustloff, B. H. Liddell Hart, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Lin Yutang, Walter Dornberger, and Jean Giono. Among people deceased in 1974, Marcel Pagnol ranks 33Before him are Virginia Apgar, Walter Lippmann, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Zalman Shazar, Nikolai Kuznetsov, and Hilda Gadea. After him are Cass Elliot, Patrick Blackett, Anatole Litvak, Franz Jonas, Frank Martin, and Walter Brennan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Pagnol ranks 1,246 out of 6,011Before him are Cléo de Mérode (1875), Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), Rudolph III of Burgundy (971), Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (1753), and Marie Laurencin (1883). After him are Clément Janequin (1485), Armand Guillaumin (1841), Benedict of Aniane (750), Theobald II of Navarre (1239), Maine de Biran (1766), and Lionel Jospin (1937).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marcel Pagnol ranks 159Before him are Comtessa de Dia (1175), Julien Green (1900), Sonia Rykiel (1930), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), Adalberon (947), and Madeleine de Scudéry (1607). After him are Heinrich Kramer (1430), Jean Giraudoux (1882), Pierre Larousse (1817), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Joachim du Bellay (1522), and Joseph Bédier (1864).