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Marie Harel

1761 - 1844

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Marie Harel (born Marie Catherine Fontaine; April 28, 1761 – November 9, 1844) was a French cheesemaker, who, along with Abbot Charles-Jean Bonvoust, invented Camembert cheese, according to local legend. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Harel has received more than 427,647 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Marie Harel is the 6th most popular chef (down from 5th in 2019), the 2,260th most popular biography from France (down from 2,074th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Chef.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEFS

Among chefs, Marie Harel ranks 6 out of 15. Before her are Marcus Gavius Apicius, Joël Robuchon, Julia Child, Franz Sacher, and Alain Ducasse. After her are Gordon Ramsay, Charles Joughin, George Speck, Ferran Adrià, Jamie Oliver, and René Redzepi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Marie Harel ranks 16. Before her are Jean-Charles Pichegru, Sineperver Sultan, Louis-Léopold Boilly, Antoine Barnave, Smithson Tennant, and José, Prince of Brazil. After her are Marguerite Gérard, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, François Hanriot, August Batsch, and Pierre Gaveaux. Among people deceased in 1844, Marie Harel ranks 20. Before her are Jernej Kopitar, Henri Gatien Bertrand, Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia, Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, and Princess Cecilia of Sweden. After her are Nicolas Chopin, Francis Baily, Adolphe Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Jacques Laffitte, and Gustav Hugo.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie Harel ranks 2,260 out of 6,770. Before her are Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (1955), Drogo of Champagne (670), Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (1487), Achille Devéria (1800), François-André Vincent (1746), and André Dussollier (1946). After her are Jacques Massu (1908), Guy de Rothschild (1909), Alexandre Darracq (1855), Madeleine Béjart (1615), Germain of Paris (496), and René Caillié (1799).

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Among CHEFS In France

Among chefs born in France, Marie Harel ranks 3. Before her are Joël Robuchon (1945), and Alain Ducasse (1956).

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