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Nicolas-Edme Rétif

1734 - 1806

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Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, born Nicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif (French: [ʁetif]; 23 October 1734 – 3 February 1806), also known as Rétif, was a French novelist. The term retifism for shoe fetishism was named after him (an early novel, entitled Fanchette's Foot, follows a beautiful heroine and her pretty little foot, which, with her pretty face, gets her and her shoe/s into lots of trouble). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas-Edme Rétif has received more than 112,530 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Nicolas-Edme Rétif is the 1,560th most popular writer (down from 1,252nd in 2019), the 1,791st most popular biography from France (down from 1,397th in 2019) and the 226th most popular French Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 57.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nicolas-Edme Rétif ranks 1,560 out of 5,755. Before him are Fran Krsto Frankopan, Sabino Arana, Anton Praetorius, Marcel Aymé, Yaşar Kemal, and Lewis Mumford. After him are Liu Zongyuan, Elizabeth Bishop, Alphonse Allais, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Sergei Dovlatov, and Alexander Belyaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Nicolas-Edme Rétif ranks 13. Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen, Anna Göldi, Sophie of France, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Shahrokh Shah. After him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, Daniel Boone, and Ueda Akinari. Among people deceased in 1806, Nicolas-Edme Rétif ranks 23. Before him are Nicolas Leblanc, Johann Christoph Adelung, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, and Michel Adanson. After him are Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Vicente Martín y Soler, Shah Alam II, Pavel Tsitsianov, George Stubbs, and George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas-Edme Rétif ranks 1,791 out of 6,011. Before him are Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), Charles Paul de Kock (1793), Michèle Mouton (1951), Jean Dujardin (1972), Marcel Aymé (1902), and Guy Roux (1938). After him are Paul Virilio (1932), Fabien Barthez (1971), Félix Savart (1791), Alphonse Allais (1854), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), and Isabelle of France (1225).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Nicolas-Edme Rétif ranks 226. Before him are Anne Desclos (1907), Anna de Noailles (1876), Jean de Meun (1240), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), Charles Paul de Kock (1793), and Marcel Aymé (1902). After him are Alphonse Allais (1854), Remy de Gourmont (1858), Jean-François Marmontel (1723), Gabriel Naudé (1600), Marie de Gournay (1565), and René Char (1907).

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