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Pierre Plantard

1920 - 2000

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Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair (born Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard, 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000) was a French technical artist, best known for being the principal fabricator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a male-line Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the "Great Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus. Today in France, he is commonly regarded as having been a con artist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Plantard is the 2,084th most popular writer (down from 1,713th in 2019), the 2,349th most popular biography from France (down from 1,972nd in 2019) and the 292nd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Plantard ranks 2,084 out of 7,302. Before him are Isaac the Blind, Ibn al-Farid, Piotr Skarga, Elsa Beskow, Wolfgang Borchert, and Stanisław Przybyszewski. After him are Salvador de Madariaga, François Hotman, Marcus Tullius Tiro, Waldemar Bonsels, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Marjorie Boulton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Pierre Plantard ranks 127. Before him are Jean Starobinski, Henry Heimlich, Ray Harryhausen, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Zhou Xuan, and Renato Carosone. After him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Albert Memmi, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Saul Bass, Eva Dahlbeck, and Miguel Delibes. Among people deceased in 2000, Pierre Plantard ranks 89. Before him are Phạm Văn Đồng, José Águas, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Ahmet Kaya, Yehuda Amichai, and Nikolaos Andriakopoulos. After him are Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Philippe Chatrier, Roger Peyrefitte, Tito Puente, Nancy Marchand, and Steven Runciman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Plantard ranks 2,349 out of 6,770. Before him are Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut (1294), Isaac the Blind (1160), Matthias of Arras (1290), Peter Chanel (1803), Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (1731), and Ivo of Chartres (1040). After him are François Hotman (1524), Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), Michel de l'Hôpital (1505), François Étienne de Kellermann (1770), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), and Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne (1787).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Plantard ranks 292. Before him are Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880), Anne Golon (1921), Robert de Boron (1110), Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960), and Isaac the Blind (1160). After him are François Hotman (1524), Menasseh Ben Israel (1604), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Thomas Merton (1915), Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), and Albert Gleizes (1881).

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