WRITER

Roger Peyrefitte

1907 - 2000

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Pierre Roger Peyrefitte (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʒe pɛʁfit]; 17 August 1907 – 5 November 2000) was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and non-fiction, and a defender of gay rights and pederasty. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Peyrefitte has received more than 154,959 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Peyrefitte is the 2,184th most popular writer (down from 1,893rd in 2019), the 2,443rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,131st in 2019) and the 312th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Les amitiés particulières
teenage homosexuality
Novel about a romantic friendship/relationship between two French boys at a 1930s Jesuit boarding school.
1945
La nature du prince
Fiction
1963
Les amours singulières
1949
Chevaliers de Malte
Fiction, Historical fiction, Knights of Malta
1957
Manouche
1972
Les ambassades
1951
Chevaliers de Malte
Fiction, Historical fiction, Knights of Malta
1957
Juifs
Fiction, Antisemitism, Jews
1965
Les amitiés particulières
Gay teenagers, Fiction, Boarding schools
Novel about a romantic friendship/relationship between two French boys at a 1930s Jesuit boarding school.
1945
Les ambassades
Fiction, Literatura Francesa
1951
La nature du prince
Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Princes
1963
Les clés de saint Pierre
Catholic Church, Clergy, Fiction
1955

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roger Peyrefitte ranks 2,184 out of 7,302. Before him are Dagny Juel, Jacques Futrelle, Erich Mühsam, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Fernando de Rojas, and Mikha'il Na'ima. After him are Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Samuel R. Delany, Álvaro Mutis, E. L. Doctorow, Samuil Marshak, and Asclepiades of Samos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Roger Peyrefitte ranks 120. Before him are Ilona Elek, Ayub Khan, Rudolf Peierls, Pierre Pflimlin, George de Mestral, and Sabahattin Ali. After him are Marcel Bezençon, Dixie Dean, Heinz Brandt, Bruno Munari, Yves Allégret, and William Steig. Among people deceased in 2000, Roger Peyrefitte ranks 86. Before him are Yehuda Amichai, Hubert Maga, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, José Águas, Patrick O'Brian, and Pierre Pflimlin. After him are Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Tito Puente, Terence McKenna, Steven Runciman, Walter Krupinski, and Hendrik Casimir.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Peyrefitte ranks 2,443 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret of Bourbon (1438), Pierre Renoir (1885), Chilperic II of Burgundy (450), Judoc (600), Maurice Pialat (1925), and Maximilien Luce (1858). After him are Geneviève Page (1927), Jo Schlesser (1928), Bérenger Saunière (1852), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Jacques Pills (1906), and Marguerite Gérard (1761).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Roger Peyrefitte ranks 312. Before him are Paul Morand (1888), Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886), Michel Leiris (1901), Isaac the Blind (1160), and Auguste Maquet (1813). After him are Zygmunt Krasiński (1812), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), Renaud Camus (1946), Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), Emmanuel Carrère (1957), and Jean d'Ormesson (1925).

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