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Pierre Boulle

1912 - 1994

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Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. He used these experiences in The Bridge on the River Kwai, about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Boulle has received more than 594,967 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Pierre Boulle is the 739th most popular writer (down from 675th in 2019), the 893rd most popular biography from France (down from 789th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular French Writer.

Pierre Boulle is most famous for his novel "The Bridge over the River Kwai" which was later made into a movie.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Bridge on the River Kwai
1954
William Conrad
Fiction
1950
The bridge over the River Kwai
World War, 1939-1945
1954
The bridge on the River Kwai
1954
Le pont de la rivière Kwaï
1952
Le pont de la riviere Kwai
1958

Page views of Pierre Boulles by language

Over the past year Pierre Boulle has had the most page views in the with 86,990 views, followed by French (46,755), and Spanish (11,401). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (163.71%), Armenian (153.11%), and Belarusian (116.23%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Boulle ranks 739 out of 7,302. Before him are Beatrix Potter, Cao Xueqin, Walter Raleigh, Sidonius Apollinaris, Otto of Freising, and Georg Büchner. After him are Yanka Kupala, John Dos Passos, Berossus, Edmond de Goncourt, Theognis of Megara, and A. J. Cronin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Pierre Boulle ranks 37. Before him are Edward Mills Purcell, Juan Pujol García, Leonid Kantorovich, Maria Mandl, Alois Brunner, and Isser Harel. After him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Glenn T. Seaborg, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Kim Philby, Tibor Sekelj, and Jozef Gabčík. Among people deceased in 1994, Pierre Boulle ranks 39. Before him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Henry Mancini, Sergei Bondarchuk, Gian Maria Volonté, Marija Gimbutas, and Juvénal Habyarimana. After him are Niels Kaj Jerne, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, Witold Lutosławski, Fernando Rey, Pujie, and Roger Wolcott Sperry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Boulle ranks 893 out of 6,770. Before him are Renée of France (1510), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Lucile Randon (1904), Sidonius Apollinaris (430), Jean-Georges Noverre (1727), and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656). After him are Jules Ferry (1832), Edmond de Goncourt (1822), Claudine Auger (1941), Richard I of Normandy (933), Jean Giraud (1938), and Paul Delaroche (1797).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Boulle ranks 122. Before him are Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), Alain-René Lesage (1668), Alfred de Vigny (1797), Bernart de Ventadorn (1135), Edmond Rostand (1868), and Sidonius Apollinaris (430). After him are Edmond de Goncourt (1822), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657), Jean Anouilh (1910), Antoine Galland (1646), Theodore Beza (1519), and Georges Bernanos (1888).

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