WRITER

Roland Dorgelès

1885 - 1973

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Roland Dorgelès (French pronunciation: [dɔʁʒəlɛs]; 15 June 1885 – 18 March 1973) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt. Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris. A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses (Les croix de bois), a moving study of World War I, in which he served. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roland Dorgelès has received more than 35,446 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Roland Dorgelès is the 5,392nd most popular writer, the 4,704th most popular biography from France and the 605th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 35k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le cabaret de la Belle Femme
Fiction, World War, 1914-1918
1919
Wooden Crosses
2018
Les croix de bois
World War, 1914-1918, Fiction
1900
Les croix de bois
Fiction, World War, 1914-1918
1921
Wooden Crosses
Fiction, historical, general, World war, 1914-1918, fiction
2004
Saint Magloire
1922

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Roland Dorgelès ranks 5,392 out of 7,302. Before him are Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Kim Newman, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, László Németh, and Karim Rashid. After him are Jorge Icaza Coronel, Adolf Bartels, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ring Lardner, Aya Kitō, and Elizabeth Hawley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Roland Dorgelès ranks 218. Before him are Tommaso Costantino, Otto Kruger, Georgina de Albuquerque, Aldo Palazzeschi, Prudencia Ayala, and Stith Thompson. After him are George Fitzmaurice, Ring Lardner, Aquilino Ribeiro, Artur Lemba, John Beazley, and Leonard Peterson. Among people deceased in 1973, Roland Dorgelès ranks 224. Before him are Earl Browder, Grigore Moisil, Dudley Senanayake, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Jane Bowles, and Oliver Macdonald. After him are Mikhail Somov, Arthur Freed, Memphis Minnie, Ivan Petrovsky, Ōten Shimokawa, and Brigitte Reimann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roland Dorgelès ranks 4,704 out of 6,770. Before him are Isabelle Nanty (1962), Denys de La Patellière (1921), Marcellin Boule (1861), Jeanne Dumée (1660), Christian de Chalonge (1937), and José Garcia (1966). After him are Palisot de Beauvois (1752), Raynald Denoueix (1948), Claude Renoir (1913), George Fitzmaurice (1885), Dayot Upamecano (1998), and Albert Champoudry (1880).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Roland Dorgelès ranks 605. Before him are Thierry Meyssan (1957), Marie Noël (1883), Vernon Lee (1856), Jean Prévost (1901), Anatole Le Braz (1859), and Jeanne Dumée (1660). After him are Alain Decaux (1925), Jacques-Pierre Amette (1943), Théodore Aubanel (1829), Jacques Audiberti (1899), Isabelle Collin Dufresne (1935), and Louis Guilloux (1899).

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