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Marie de France

1101 - 1300

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Marie de France (fl. 1160–1215) was a poet, likely born in France, who lived in England during the late 12th century. She lived and wrote at an unknown court, but she and her work were almost certainly known at the royal court of King Henry II of England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie de France has received more than 565,387 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Marie de France is the 675th most popular writer (up from 764th in 2019), the 795th most popular biography from France (up from 899th in 2019) and the 109th most popular French Writer.

Marie de France is most famous for her 12th century collection of stories, "Lais."

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Silence dans le ciel
1955
Lettre de la Royne mere enuoyee au Roy le 26 de Feurier 1619
1619
Coppie de la lettre escritte a Monsieur Desdiguieres, par la Royne
1614
Lettre de la Royne regente
1614
Silence in heaven
1956
Lettre de la Reyne Mere av Roy. Avec la response de sa Majeste .
1631

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie de France ranks 675 out of 7,302. Before her are Matilde Camus, H. L. Mencken, Carlo Gozzi, Douglas Adams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lawrence Durrell. After her are Maurice Blanchot, Sei Shōnagon, Bernard Gui, André Chénier, Novatian, and Phillis Wheatley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1101, Marie de France ranks 2. Before her is Héloïse. After her are Stephen II of Hungary, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Köten, Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, Andronikos I of Trebizond, Michael IV of Constantinople, Adela of Meissen, Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli, Dobrodeia of Kiev, and George II of Constantinople. Among people deceased in 1300, Marie de France ranks 4. Before her are Halime Hatun, Nogai Khan, and Baiju. After her are Guido Cavalcanti, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Trần Hưng Đạo, Maria Palaiologina, Anonymus, Robert de Boron, Chaka of Bulgaria, and Liang Kai.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie de France ranks 795 out of 6,770. Before her are Joanna of Bourbon (1338), Georges Rouault (1871), Robert Curthose (1054), Gaston Doumergue (1863), Agnès Sorel (1422), and Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (1162). After her are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Henri Lefebvre (1901), Marcel Carné (1906), Vincent Cassel (1966), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), and Maurice Blanchot (1907).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marie de France ranks 109. Before her are Madame de La Fayette (1634), Pierre Loti (1850), Madame Roland (1754), Raymond Queneau (1903), Eugène Sue (1804), and Frontinus (30). After her are Maurice Blanchot (1907), Bernard Gui (1261), Jean Froissart (1337), Maurice Denis (1870), Max Jacob (1876), and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755).

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