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Raymond Roussel

1877 - 1933

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Raymond Roussel (French pronunciation: [ʁɛmɔ̃ ʁusɛl]; 20 January 1877 – 14 July 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Roussel has received more than 167,239 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Roussel is the 1,498th most popular writer (down from 1,402nd in 2019), the 1,711th most popular biography from France (down from 1,560th in 2019) and the 216th most popular French Writer.

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  • 170k

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  • 57.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raymond Roussel ranks 1,498 out of 5,755. Before him are Gottfried von Strassburg, Peter Abrahams, Håkan Nesser, Michael Moorcock, Nicholas Sparks, and Mehmet Akif Ersoy. After him are Li Qingzhao, Gottfried August Bürger, Gore Vidal, David Woodard, Gil Vicente, and Anagarika Dharmapala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Raymond Roussel ranks 44. Before him are Henry Norris Russell, Isabelle Eberhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Alben W. Barkley, Endre Ady, and James Jeans. After him are Sadao Araki, Vasil Kolarov, Jesse Livermore, Chaim Rumkowski, Herbert Pitman, and Charles Rolls. Among people deceased in 1933, Raymond Roussel ranks 31. Before him are Henry Royce, Francesc Macià, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Hans Vaihinger, Kenji Miyazawa, and Hipólito Yrigoyen. After him are Anagarika Dharmapala, Paul Painlevé, Anna de Noailles, Mary Parker Follett, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, and Henri Duparc.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raymond Roussel ranks 1,711 out of 6,011. Before him are William Kennedy Dickson (1860), Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), Louis of Toulouse (1274), François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641), Jean Sorel (1934), and Jean-Claude Mézières (1938). After him are Christian Lacroix (1951), Jacques Paul Migne (1800), Hubert Lyautey (1854), Hugh of Cluny (1024), Germaine Dulac (1882), and John Eudes (1601).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Raymond Roussel ranks 216. Before him are Jean Chapelain (1595), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Michel Verne (1861), François de Malherbe (1555), Georges Duhamel (1884), and Gottfried von Strassburg (1180). After him are Jules de Goncourt (1830), Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800), Robert Desnos (1900), Anne Desclos (1907), Anna de Noailles (1876), and Jean de Meun (1240).

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