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Paul Valéry

1871 - 1945

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Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (French: [pɔl valeʁi]; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Valéry has received more than 666,558 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Paul Valéry is the 286th most popular writer (down from 276th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from France (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Writer.

Paul Valéry is most famous for being a French poet, essayist, and playwright.

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  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Valéry ranks 286 out of 7,302. Before him are Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Paul Heyse, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alfonso X of Castile, William Golding, and Alberto Moravia. After him are Philip K. Dick, Marcus Terentius Varro, Gerhart Hauptmann, Emily Dickinson, Arthur C. Clarke, and Pearl S. Buck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Paul Valéry ranks 7. Before him are Ernest Rutherford, Rosa Luxemburg, Marcel Proust, Friedrich Ebert, Alexander Scriabin, and Karl Liebknecht. After him are Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Grazia Deledda, Albert Lebrun, and Heinrich Mann. Among people deceased in 1945, Paul Valéry ranks 17. Before him are Anton Webern, Ernst Cassirer, Walter Model, Subhas Chandra Bose, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Magda Goebbels. After him are Heinrich Müller, Wilhelm Canaris, Pietro Mascagni, George S. Patton, Irma Grese, and Pierre Laval.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Valéry ranks 325 out of 6,770. Before him are Diane de Poitiers (1499), Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), and Georges de La Tour (1593). After him are Elisabeth of Valois (1545), Anne of Brittany (1477), Josquin des Prez (1450), Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275), Colette (1873), and Luc Montagnier (1932).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Valéry ranks 51. Before him are J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Germaine de Staël (1766), François Mauriac (1885), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), and Alphonse Daudet (1840). After him are Colette (1873), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Antonin Artaud (1896), Françoise Sagan (1935), and Roger Martin du Gard (1881).

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