WRITER

Paul Éluard

1895 - 1952

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Paul Éluard (French: [elɥar]), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel ([ɡʁɛ̃dɛl]; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Éluard has received more than 670,027 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Paul Éluard is the 336th most popular writer (up from 347th in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from France (up from 397th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular French Writer.

Paul Éluard is most famous for his poems and his love affair with the artist Gala.

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  • 670k

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  • 69.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Éluard ranks 336 out of 7,302. Before him are Théophile Gautier, Coen brothers, William Wordsworth, Mikhail Sholokhov, David Woodard, and Paul Celan. After him are Lorenzo Valla, Wilhelm Grimm, Callimachus, Nâzım Hikmet, Doris Lessing, and Arthur Schnitzler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Paul Éluard ranks 15. Before him are Ernst Jünger, Wilm Hosenfeld, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, Anna Freud, and Mikhail Bakhtin. After him are J. Edgar Hoover, Levi Eshkol, Henrik Dam, Dolores Ibárruri, Nikolai Yezhov, and Sergei Yesenin. Among people deceased in 1952, Paul Éluard ranks 9. Before him are Eva Perón, George VI, John Dewey, Chaim Weizmann, Alexandra Kollontai, and Wilm Hosenfeld. After him are Karen Horney, Sveinn Björnsson, Benedetto Croce, Elena of Montenegro, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, and Sven Hedin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Éluard ranks 393 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis IV of France (920), Fernandel (1903), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Jules Rimet (1873), and Ernest Renan (1823). After him are James I of Aragon (1208), Gustave Moreau (1826), Dagobert I (611), Pierre Laval (1883), Liliane Bettencourt (1922), and Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Éluard ranks 63. Before him are Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Henri Charrière (1906), Ève Curie (1904), André Malraux (1901), and Théophile Gautier (1811). After him are Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Georges Bataille (1897), Jean Genet (1910), Gregory of Tours (538), and Jacques Prévert (1900).

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