← Fame through time1870-1879
The 1870s
Whose names filled the books of the 1870s - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.
Talked about then
Whose names appeared most in French books during the 1870s, whenever they lived.
- 1
Voltaire45 - 2
Louis XIV of France30 - 3
Molière18 - 4
Louis XVI of France11 - 5
Louis XV of France10 - 6
Montesquieu8.0 - 7
Jules Favre7.1 - 8
François Fénelon6.3 - 9
Napoleon III5.4 - 10
Victor Hugo4.4 - 11
Louis XVIII of France4.0 - 12
Jules Simon3.9 - 13
Louis XII of France3.7 - 14
Charles X of France3.5 - 15
Marie Antoinette2.9 - 16
Francis de Sales2.8 - 17
Joan of Arc2.7 - 18
Louis Blanc2.5 - 19
Benjamin Constant2.3 - 20
Claude Bernard2.2 - 21
Marie de' Medici2.2 - 22
Vincent de Paul2.1 - 23
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme1.8 - 24
Jules Ferry1.6 - 25
Francis II of France1.6
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1870s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Friedrich Nietzsche15 decades - 2
Mark Twain16 decades - 3
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky10 decades - 4
William McKinley16 decades - 5
Grover Cleveland14 decades - 6
Claude Monet14 decades - 7
Émile Zola16 decades - 8
Edward VII13 decades - 9
Sarah Bernhardt15 decades - 10
John D. Rockefeller14 decades - 11
Andrew Carnegie14 decades - 12
Leopold II of Belgium9 decades - 13
Paul Cézanne12 decades - 14
Pope Pius X12 decades - 15
Antonín Dvořák0 decades - 16
Empress Elisabeth of Austria0 decades - 17
Empress Dowager Cixi5 decades - 18
Pierre-Auguste Renoir12 decades - 19
Thomas Hardy18 decades - 20
Abdul Hamid II13 decades - 21
J. P. Morgan16 decades - 22
Auguste Rodin14 decades - 23
Henry James18 decades - 24
Ramakrishna14 decades - 25
Peter Kropotkin11 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.