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René Char

1907 - 1988

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René Émile Char (French: [ʃaʁ]; 14 June 1907 – 19 February 1988) was a French poet and member of the French Resistance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Char has received more than 161,234 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). René Char is the 1,476th most popular writer (up from 1,602nd in 2019), the 1,714th most popular biography from France (up from 1,831st in 2019) and the 213th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

René Char
Criticism and interpretation
1951
Fureur et mystère
1962
Recherche de la base et du sommet
1955
Les Matinaux
1950
La parole en archipel
1962
Commune présence
1964

Among WRITERS

Among writers, René Char ranks 1,476 out of 7,302. Before him are Elizabeth Siddal, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Don Juan Manuel, Francis Jammes, Achilles Tatius, and Vita Sackville-West. After him are Samuel ibn Naghrillah, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Gottfried August Bürger, Guido Adler, Ono no Komachi, and Tomi Ungerer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, René Char ranks 84. Before him are Leonor Fini, Jan Patočka, Takeo Wakabayashi, James Meade, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, and Helmuth James von Moltke. After him are Cab Calloway, Antonín Puč, Run Run Shaw, Anne Desclos, Franz Jägerstätter, and Pavel Sudoplatov. Among people deceased in 1988, René Char ranks 50. Before him are Khalil al-Wazir, Paul Grice, Luis Walter Alvarez, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Renato Salvatori, and Karl August Wittfogel. After him are Bacha Khan, Isamu Noguchi, Antonín Puč, Dino Grandi, Heo Jeong, and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Char ranks 1,714 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers (1609), Abbo of Fleury (945), Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814), Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Francis Jammes (1868), and William III, Duke of Aquitaine (910). After him are Guy Mollet (1905), Tomi Ungerer (1931), Alain Cuny (1908), Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761), Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721), and Nicolas Catinat (1637).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, René Char ranks 213. Before him are Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), Tristan Corbière (1845), Jacques Cazotte (1719), Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), and Francis Jammes (1868). After him are Tomi Ungerer (1931), Adam de la Halle (1245), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Georges Duhamel (1884), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), and Henry de Montherlant (1895).

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