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Pierre Bec

1921 - 2014

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Pierre Bec (French: [pjɛʁ bɛk]; Occitan: Pèire Bèc, IPA: ['pɛjɾe βɛk]; 11 December 1921 – 30 June 2014) was a French Occitan-language poet and linguist. Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Comminges, where he learnt Occitan. He was deported to Germany between 1943 and 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Bec has received more than 23,608 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pierre Bec is the 3,402nd most popular writer (up from 3,957th in 2019), the 3,490th most popular biography from France (up from 3,707th in 2019) and the 444th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 24k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La Langue Occitane (Que sais-je?)
1963
La langue occitane
1963
La lyrique française au Moyen Age (XIIe-XIIIe siècles)
French poetry, History and criticism, History
1977
La Langue occitane
Dialects, Occitan language, Provençal language
1963
Per un païs
History and criticism, Occitan language, Occitan literature
2002
Manuel pratique de philologie romane, tome 2
1971

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Bec ranks 3,402 out of 7,302. Before him are Filippo Buonaccorsi, Gérard de Villiers, Jean-François Regnard, Victor Pelevin, Georgi Sava Rakovski, and John Henry Mackay. After him are Spencer Johnson, Max Aub, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Augusto Genina, Mikhail Koltsov, and Jiří Wolker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Pierre Bec ranks 207. Before him are Carmen Laforet, Joseph A. Walker, Jacques Lecoq, Rashid Karami, Judy Holliday, and Ziya Bunyadov. After him are Max Noether, Kurt Adolff, Søren Kam, Frédéric Dard, Paulo Evaristo Arns, and Antonio María Javierre Ortas. Among people deceased in 2014, Pierre Bec ranks 179. Before him are Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Jean Béliveau, Ante Žanetić, Paul Mazursky, On Kawara, and Harun Farocki. After him are Christophe de Margerie, Abdul Qadir, Wu Ma, Gustavo Cerati, Julio Abbadie, and Pino Cerami.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Bec ranks 3,490 out of 6,770. Before him are Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Gérard de Villiers (1929), Arthur Morin (1795), Jean-François Regnard (1655), Anselm of Laon (1050), and Claude Pinoteau (1925). After him are Max Aub (1909), Christophe de Margerie (1951), Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Serge Lama (1943), and Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Bec ranks 444. Before him are Robert de Clari (1170), Jean Effel (1908), Alexis Piron (1689), Octave Feuillet (1821), Gérard de Villiers (1929), and Jean-François Regnard (1655). After him are Max Aub (1909), René Barjavel (1911), Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707), Frédéric Dard (1921), Alain Chartier (1392), and Roger Vailland (1907).

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