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Pierre Plantard

1920 - 2000

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Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair (born Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard, 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000) was a French technical artist, best known for being the principal fabricator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a male-line Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the "Great Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Plantard has received more than 307,582 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pierre Plantard is the 1,714th most popular writer (up from 1,727th in 2019), the 1,971st most popular biography from France (down from 1,956th in 2019) and the 249th most popular French Writer.

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  • 310k

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  • 57.37

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Convention portant loi uniforme sur la forme d'un testament international, signée à Washington le 26 octobre 1973
Wills
1974

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Plantard ranks 1,714 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernard Malamud, Kateb Yacine, Mao Dun, Hadewijch, Lucinda Riley, and Hermann Bahr. After him are José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Lewis Mumford, Mateo Alemán, David Morrell, Slavenka Drakulić, and Marin Držić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Pierre Plantard ranks 103. Before him are Eileen Chang, Bruno Maderna, Roberto Calvi, Vilém Flusser, Constanze Manziarly, and Henry Heimlich. After him are José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Jack Warden, Victor Turner, Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Väinö Linna, and Tonino Guerra. Among people deceased in 2000, Pierre Plantard ranks 71. Before him are Keizō Obuchi, Noboru Takeshita, Don Budge, Kemal Sunal, Barbara Cartland, and Maurice Richard. After him are Baden Powell, Franck Pourcel, Ahmet Kaya, Claude Sautet, Ivan Stambolić, and Fulcanelli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Plantard ranks 1,971 out of 6,770. Before him are David d'Angers (1788), Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (1557), Jean Rouch (1917), Félix Gouin (1884), Richard, Duke of Burgundy (858), and Peter the Venerable (1092). After him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), Adrien Manglard (1695), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Franck Pourcel (1913), Ermesinde of Carcassonne (972), and Jean Djorkaeff (1939).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Plantard ranks 249. Before him are Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800), François Pierre La Varenne (1618), Marcel Schwob (1867), Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1685), Jean Bodel (1165), and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1669). After him are Robert de Boron (1110), Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808), Joseph Joubert (1754), Gottfried von Strassburg (1180), Michel Zevaco (1860), and Gabriel Naudé (1600).

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