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Sylvain Maréchal

1750 - 1803

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Sylvain Maréchal (15 August 1750 – 18 January 1803) was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views presaged utopian socialism and communism. His views on a future golden age are occasionally described as utopian anarchism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvain Maréchal has received more than 134,036 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Sylvain Maréchal is the 3,080th most popular writer (down from 2,605th in 2019), the 3,222nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,803rd in 2019) and the 405th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Antiquités d'Herculanum, ou Les plus belles peintures antiques, et les marbres, bronzes, meubles, etc. etc. trouvés dans les excavations d'Herculanum, Stabia et Pompeïa
Herculaneum
1780
Antiquités d'Herculanum, ou Les plus belles peintures antiques, et les marbres, bronzes, meubles, etc., trouvés dans les excavations d'Herculanum, Stabies et Pompéi
2001
Izbrannye ateisticheskie proizvedenii͡a︡
Atheism
1958
Culte et loix d'une société d'hommes sans Dieu
Atheism
1967
Antiquités d\'Herculanum, ou Les plus belles peintures antiques, et les marbres, bronzes, meubles, etc. etc., trouvés dans les excavations d\'Herculanum, ... et Pompéi
2001
Voyages de Pythagore en Égypte, dans la Chaldée, dans l\'Inde, en Crète, à Sparte, en Sicile, à Rome, à Carthage, à Marseille et dans les Gaules
2003

Page views of Sylvain Maréchals by language

Over the past year Sylvain Maréchal has had the most page views in the with 18,926 views, followed by French (5,222), and Russian (2,359). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (77.19%), Catalan (75.85%), and Czech (65.12%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sylvain Maréchal ranks 3,080 out of 7,302. Before him are Banjo Paterson, Robert Fisk, Antonio Fogazzaro, Abbās al-Aqqād, William Ernest Henley, and Yulian Semyonov. After him are Olena Teliha, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Viktor Yerofeyev, Elia Levita, Mastoureh Ardalan, and Kondraty Ryleyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Sylvain Maréchal ranks 29. Before him are Jacques-François Menou, Bathilde d'Orléans, Túpac Katari, Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden, Yazid of Morocco, and Hugo Kołłątaj. After him are Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Anton Stamitz, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Daniel Gottlob Türk, and Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Among people deceased in 1803, Sylvain Maréchal ranks 26. Before him are William Hamilton, Gottfried van Swieten, Anders Chydenius, Nicolas Baudin, Arthur Guinness, and Jean-François de La Harpe. After him are Maria Fortunata d'Este, Pōmare I, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, and Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sylvain Maréchal ranks 3,222 out of 6,770. Before him are Albert Lamorisse (1922), Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), Jacques Villeret (1951), Prosper Guéranger (1805), Bernard Thévenet (1948), and Michel Hazanavicius (1967). After him are François Bayrou (1951), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), Michel Blavet (1700), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Bernard Lacombe (1952), and Charles Percier (1764).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Sylvain Maréchal ranks 405. Before him are Henri Meilhac (1831), Charles Blanc (1813), Joseph Joffo (1931), Jean Astruc (1684), Charles-Louis Havas (1783), and Charles-Louis Philippe (1874). After him are Jean-Christophe Grangé (1961), Antoine de Rivarol (1753), Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613), Étienne Jodelle (1532), René Daumal (1908), and Tristan Bernard (1866).

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