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Pierre Larousse

1817 - 1875

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Pierre Athanase Larousse (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ atanaz laʁus]; 23 October 1817 – 3 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Larousse has received more than 60,025 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Pierre Larousse is the 1,096th most popular writer (up from 1,151st in 2019), the 1,280th most popular biography from France (up from 1,286th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular French Writer.

Pierre Larousse is most famous for publishing a French dictionary.

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  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Larousse ranks 1,096 out of 5,755. Before him are Allan Pinkerton, Mimnermus, Jean Giraudoux, Jan Neruda, Andrei Bely, and Thomas Chatterton. After him are Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Elizabeth Gaskell, Lü Dongbin, Ethel Voynich, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Pierre Larousse ranks 13. Before him are Charles-François Daubigny, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Syed Ahmad Khan, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, and Niels Gade. After him are Theodor Storm, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Austen Henry Layard, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. Among people deceased in 1875, Pierre Larousse ranks 16. Before him are Éliphas Lévi, John Edward Gray, Charles Wheatstone, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Moses Hess, and Francis V, Duke of Modena. After him are Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Amalia of Oldenburg, 12th Dalai Lama, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Heinrich Schwabe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Larousse ranks 1,280 out of 6,011. Before him are Eugène Atget (1857), Aimé Bonpland (1773), André Michelin (1853), Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary (1158), Maurice Thorez (1900), and Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (1435). After him are Michel de Certeau (1925), Henri, Count of Paris (1908), Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Camille Jordan (1838), and John III of Navarre (1477).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Larousse ranks 162. Before him are Robert de Montesquiou (1855), Adalberon (947), Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Marcel Pagnol (1895), Heinrich Kramer (1430), and Jean Giraudoux (1882). After him are B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Joachim du Bellay (1522), Joseph Bédier (1864), Raymond Radiguet (1903), Catherine de Bourbon (1559), and Paul Scarron (1610).

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