Top 50 Poets in France

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest poets in France, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 79 poets tracked in France, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Boris Vian, Arthur Rimbaud and Louise Michel lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1,575,531 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 99,811, and the largest, Boris Vian, reaches around 571,289 people in France. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with each poet, 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	Boris Vian	571,289	85.2%	Poet	Literature
2	Arthur Rimbaud	527,803	67.3%	Poet	Literature
3	Louise Michel	476,439	94.5%	Poet	Literature
4	Charles Baudelaire	450,393	33.1%	Poet	Literature
5	Cyrano de Bergerac	381,631	38.2%	Poet	Literature
6	Federico García Lorca	286,092	26.4%	Poet	Literature
7	Guillaume Apollinaire	239,380	77.6%	Poet	Literature
8	Michel Houellebecq	202,629	32.5%	Poet	Literature
9	Tennessee Williams	117,420	10.6%	Poet	Literature
10	Théophile Gautier	106,785	82.6%	Poet	Literature
11	Nikolai Gogol	106,121	13.0%	Poet	Literature
12	Ada Lovelace	82,745	2.9%	Poet	Politics & Society
13	Erri De Luca	80,044	13.4%	Poet	Literature
14	Robert Louis Stevenson	71,351	6.5%	Poet	Literature
15	Emily Brontë	68,183	3.5%	Poet	Literature
16	Lord Byron	68,071	3.2%	Poet	Literature
17	Giordano Bruno	67,522	4.3%	Poet	Politics & Society
18	Paul Éluard	64,770	72.5%	Poet	Literature
19	H. P. Lovecraft	64,740	2.0%	Poet	Literature
20	Bertolt Brecht	61,609	2.6%	Poet	Literature
21	Aldous Huxley	60,919	5.2%	Poet	Literature
22	Sylvia Plath	60,455	1.1%	Poet	Literature
23	Mahmoud Darwish	58,057	7.0%	Poet	Literature
24	T. S. Eliot	56,102	2.3%	Poet	Literature
25	Henry David Thoreau	46,363	3.8%	Poet	Literature
26	Léopold Sédar Senghor	44,993	62.5%	Poet	Literature
27	Joyce Carol Oates	42,351	5.9%	Poet	Literature
28	Allen Ginsberg	42,299	5.6%	Poet	Literature
29	Paul Valéry	37,043	68.2%	Poet	Literature
30	Miguel de Cervantes	36,134	2.2%	Poet	Literature
31	Ray Bradbury	36,018	2.8%	Poet	Literature
32	Alexander Pushkin	35,207	3.1%	Poet	Literature
33	Martin Heidegger	28,460	5.8%	Poet	Literature
34	Richard I of England	25,606	2.2%	Poet	Politics & Society
35	John Keats	24,860	3.3%	Poet	Literature
36	Rumi	23,965	1.7%	Poet	Politics & Society
37	Ralph Waldo Emerson	21,549	1.9%	Poet	Literature
38	Percy Bysshe Shelley	21,106	2.4%	Poet	Literature
39	Wole Soyinka	21,078	6.6%	Poet	Literature
40	Hafez	19,291	2.7%	Poet	Literature
41	Charlotte Brontë	18,454	3.3%	Poet	Literature
42	Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum	17,701	2.0%	Poet	Politics & Society
43	John Milton	17,485	1.9%	Poet	Literature
44	Muhammad al-Bukhari	16,948	4.0%	Poet	Politics & Society
45	Al-Ghazali	15,204	1.5%	Poet	Politics & Society
46	Clarissa Pinkola Estés	14,757	5.2%	Poet	Literature
47	Antler	14,224	0.5%	Poet	Pets & Animals
48	Giacomo Casanova	14,077	3.9%	Poet	Literature
49	Amanda Gorman	13,234	1.9%	Poet	Literature
50	dean koontz	11,614	1.8%	Poet	Literature