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Paul Claudel

1868 - 1955

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Paul Claudel (French: [pɔl klodɛl]; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Claudel has received more than 353,521 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Claudel is the 538th most popular writer (down from 527th in 2019), the 627th most popular biography from France (down from 618th in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Writer.

Paul Claudel is most famous for his work as a poet, dramatist, and diplomat. He was born in 1868 and died in 1955. He was a French poet, dramatist, and diplomat.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Correspondance
1952
L' annonce faite à Marie
Medical
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1912
Le soulier de satin
French drama
1929
L' otage
1911
Partage de midi
1908
L' annonce faite a Marie
1912

Page views of Paul Claudels by language

Over the past year Paul Claudel has had the most page views in the with 106,512 views, followed by English (39,571), and Spanish (15,213). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (53.53%), Galician (46.63%), and Basque (43.98%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Claudel ranks 538 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Walser, Franz Werfel, Jacob L. Moreno, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Lorenzo Da Ponte. After him are T. S. Eliot, Bai Juyi, Gaston Leroux, Saint Naum, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Eugenio Montale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Paul Claudel ranks 18. Before him are Gichin Funakoshi, Fuad I of Egypt, Arnold Sommerfeld, Florence Foster Jenkins, Peter Behrens, and Theodore William Richards. After him are Gaston Leroux, Gustav Meyrink, Huo Yuanjia, Gertrude Bell, Robert Falcon Scott, and Dietrich Eckart. Among people deceased in 1955, Paul Claudel ranks 17. Before him are Alberto Ascari, Rodolfo Graziani, Helmuth Weidling, Arthur Honegger, and Maurice Utrillo. After him are George Enescu, Vasily Blokhin, Calouste Gulbenkian, Oswald Avery, Carmen Miranda, James B. Sumner, and Hermann Weyl.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Claudel ranks 627 out of 6,770. Before him are Marina Vlady (1938), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Juliette Binoche (1964), Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611), Guy Debord (1931), and Marie of Anjou (1404). After him are Louis Renault (1877), Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Léon Walras (1834), and Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Claudel ranks 95. Before him are Gérard de Nerval (1808), Anaïs Nin (1903), Alfred Jarry (1873), Camille Flammarion (1842), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), and Pierre de Ronsard (1524). After him are Gaston Leroux (1868), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Georges Perec (1936), Ausonius (310), and Ninon de l'Enclos (1620).

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