New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Pierre-Jean de Béranger

1780 - 1857

Photo of Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Icon of person Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (19 August 1780 – 16 July 1857) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier (songwriter), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre-Jean de Béranger has received more than 124,530 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Pierre-Jean de Béranger is the 999th most popular writer (down from 828th in 2019), the 1,172nd most popular biography from France (down from 919th in 2019) and the 150th most popular French Writer.

Pierre-Jean de Béranger was a French poet and songwriter who was most famous for writing songs about the French Revolution.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Pierre-Jean de Bérangers by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre-Jean de Béranger ranks 999 out of 5,755Before him are Irving Stone, Clive Cussler, Nikolay Karamzin, Zelda Fitzgerald, Zhuanxu, and Franz Grillparzer. After him are Pierre Louÿs, Jorge Semprún, Bernardino de Sahagún, Jean Moréas, Bernard Cornwell, and Andrew of Crete.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Pierre-Jean de Béranger ranks 8Before him are Carl von Clausewitz, Pauline Bonaparte, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Miloš Obrenović, Jules de Polignac, and Charles Nodier. After him are Sacagawea, Jernej Kopitar, Ranjit Singh, Mary Somerville, Karl Nesselrode, and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg. Among people deceased in 1857, Pierre-Jean de Béranger ranks 13Before him are Dominic Savio, Alfred de Musset, Eugène Sue, Francis Beaufort, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. After him are Johan Christian Dahl, Louis Jacques Thénard, Mangal Pandey, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Josef Ressel, and Alcide d'Orbigny.

Others Born in 1780

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1857

Go to all Rankings

In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Jean de Béranger ranks 1,172 out of 6,011Before him are Flora Tristan (1803), Suzanne Lenglen (1899), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Georges Prêtre (1924), Maurice Duverger (1917), and Jacques Ibert (1890). After him are Jean Mabillon (1632), James II of Majorca (1243), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Antipope Gregory VIII (1100), Desireless (1952), and Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre-Jean de Béranger ranks 150Before him are Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838), Charles Nodier (1780), Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), and Paulinus of Nola (354). After him are Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Johannes Tauler (1300), Comtessa de Dia (1175), Julien Green (1900), Sonia Rykiel (1930), and Robert de Montesquiou (1855).