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Molière

1622 - 1673

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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pɔklɛ̃], [pɔkəlɛ̃]; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (UK: , US: , French: [mɔljɛʁ]), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Molière has received more than 2,692,942 page views. His biography is available in 149 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 148 in 2019). Molière is the 20th most popular writer (down from 14th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from France (down from 13th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Writer.

Molière is most famous for his play "The Misanthrope."

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  • 2.7M

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  • 83.95

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  • 149

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Molière ranks 20 out of 5,755Before him are Virgil, Aesop, Jules Verne, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ovid. After him are Agatha Christie, Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Petrarch, and Anne Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1622, Molière ranks 1After him are Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Carel Fabritius, Vincenzo Viviani, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Vittoria della Rovere, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Bernhardus Varenius, Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Karel Dujardin, Juan de Valdés Leal, and Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1673, Molière ranks 1After him are Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, Margaret Theresa of Spain, Salvator Rosa, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, Semyon Dezhnev, Regnier de Graaf, Joan Blaeu, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Barent Fabritius.

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In France

Among people born in France, Molière ranks 15 out of 6,011Before him are Claude Monet (1840), Montesquieu (1689), Louis XVI of France (1754), Jules Verne (1828), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), and Nostradamus (1503). After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Charles de Gaulle (1890), John Calvin (1509), Auguste Comte (1798), Alain Delon (1935), and Émile Durkheim (1858).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Molière ranks 5Before him are Voltaire (1694), Victor Hugo (1802), Jules Verne (1828), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905). After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).