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Maurice Barrès

1862 - 1923

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Auguste-Maurice Barrès (French: [baʁɛs]; 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Barrès has received more than 222,779 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Maurice Barrès is the 1,430th most popular writer (down from 1,320th in 2019), the 1,635th most popular biography from France (down from 1,449th in 2019) and the 207th most popular French Writer.

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  • 58.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maurice Barrès ranks 1,430 out of 5,755. Before him are Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Blaise de Vigenère, Léo Taxil, James Murray, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and Paul Rée. After him are Sima Xiangru, Arnold van Gennep, Dositej Obradović, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, and Georges Feydeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Maurice Barrès ranks 36. Before him are Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Mori Ōgai, Edith Wharton, Siegbert Tarrasch, Aurel Stein, and Silvio Gesell. After him are Georges Feydeau, Ugyen Wangchuck, Leonid Pasternak, Théo van Rysselberghe, Vito Cascio Ferro, and Mary Anderson. Among people deceased in 1923, Maurice Barrès ranks 33. Before him are Edith Södergran, Ernst Troeltsch, Max Nordau, Edward W. Morley, Hovhannes Tumanyan, and Édouard Stephan. After him are Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Théophile Steinlen, Georg Luger, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Zhang Xun, and Vatroslav Jagić.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Barrès ranks 1,635 out of 6,011. Before him are Paloma Picasso (1949), Léo Taxil (1854), Miou-Miou (1950), Patrice Chéreau (1944), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), and Luis Federico Leloir (1906). After him are Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700), Michel Serrault (1928), Marguerite Perey (1909), Yo-Yo Ma (1955), and Georges Feydeau (1862).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Maurice Barrès ranks 207. Before him are Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Louise Labé (1524), Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), and Léo Taxil (1854). After him are Georges Feydeau (1862), Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Jean Chapelain (1595), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Michel Verne (1861), and François de Malherbe (1555).

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