Top 50 Authors in France

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest authors in France, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 699 authors tracked in France, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Éric Zemmour, George Sand and Carlos Ghosn lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 3,510,527 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 435,982, and the largest, Éric Zemmour, reaches around 1,383,590 people in France. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with each author, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across France and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Éric Zemmour	1,383,590	93.0%	Author	Literature
2	George Sand	1,175,307	76.8%	Author	Literature
3	Carlos Ghosn	951,630	78.8%	Author	Business & Career
4	Albert Camus	927,646	20.1%	Author	Literature
5	Candace Owens	927,580	4.1%	Author	Literature
6	Simone de Beauvoir	818,042	22.2%	Author	Literature
7	Jules Verne	763,232	22.0%	Author	Literature
8	Jane Goodall	746,160	4.4%	Author	Pets & Animals
9	Stephen King	722,290	4.0%	Author	Literature
10	Amal Clooney	619,989	7.6%	Author	Politics & Society
11	Jacques Attali	583,541	92.0%	Author	Literature
12	Anne Frank	582,359	3.6%	Author	Politics & Society
13	Harlan Coben	556,822	7.8%	Author	Literature
14	Jane Austen	503,726	4.3%	Author	Literature
15	Nostradamus	496,583	9.2%	Author	Politics & Society
16	Agatha Christie	491,588	5.4%	Author	Literature
17	Hannah Arendt	480,921	10.3%	Author	Literature
18	Alexandre Astier	466,210	77.9%	Author	Literature
19	Oscar Wilde	421,433	5.1%	Author	Literature
20	Marc Levy	409,801	72.6%	Author	Literature
21	Molière	404,333	48.7%	Author	Literature
22	Guillaume Musso	381,482	64.0%	Author	Literature
23	Chris Kyle	376,471	5.3%	Author	Literature
24	Riad Sattouf	348,610	92.4%	Author	Literature
25	Anatole France	345,245	81.5%	Author	Literature
26	Jean-Paul Sartre	342,361	13.7%	Author	Literature
27	Alfred de Musset	325,775	94.5%	Author	Literature
28	Ken Follett	317,803	11.7%	Author	Literature
29	Amélie Nothomb	289,646	82.0%	Author	Literature
30	Stefan Zweig	287,292	12.8%	Author	Literature
31	Edgar Allan Poe	271,043	3.0%	Author	Literature
32	Roald Dahl	262,606	4.2%	Author	Literature
33	Mario Vargas Llosa	242,593	2.4%	Author	Literature
34	Umberto Eco	242,027	10.0%	Author	Literature
35	Dan Brown	239,710	4.6%	Author	Literature
36	Paulo Coelho	238,561	4.9%	Author	Literature
37	Montesquieu	227,884	14.4%	Author	Literature
38	Marcel Proust	226,884	20.8%	Author	Literature
39	Margaret Atwood	221,619	6.8%	Author	Literature
40	colleen hoover	218,003	3.3%	Author	Literature
41	Thomas Aquinas	211,939	6.4%	Author	Literature
42	Virginia Woolf	209,816	4.5%	Author	Literature
43	Farah Pahlavi	207,884	15.2%	Author	Politics & Society
44	Beatrix Potter	198,405	8.7%	Author	Literature
45	William Shakespeare	196,194	1.9%	Author	Literature
46	Sarah, Duchess of York	190,400	2.9%	Author	Literature
47	Robert Charlebois	189,686	44.4%	Author	Literature
48	Jordan Belfort	188,551	3.1%	Author	Business & Career
49	Charles Darwin	184,519	1.7%	Author	Business & Career
50	Honoré de Balzac	183,337	50.3%	Author	Literature