Le Chagrin des Belges

The Sorrow of Belgium - 1983 novel by Hugo Claus. Article “Le Chagrin des Belges” in French Wikipedia has 12.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Dutch.

Since the creation of article “Le Chagrin des Belges”, its content was written by 18 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 145 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in French Wikipedia and cited 86 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #9172 in March 2012
• Global: #71584 in April 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #129863 in March 2016
• Global: #133634 in March 2008

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The Sorrow of Belgium		30.0194
2	Dutch (nl) Het verdriet van België		24.745
3	Catalan (ca) Het verdriet van België		21.4678
4	Spanish (es) La pena de Bélgica		16.4089
5	French (fr) Le Chagrin des Belges		12.7714
6	Italian (it) La sofferenza del Belgio		8.3892
7	Polish (pl) Cały smutek Belgii		4.6691
8	Ukrainian (uk) Смуток Бельгії		1.1751

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Le Chagrin des Belges" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Dutch (nl) Het verdriet van België		250 616
2	English (en) The Sorrow of Belgium		65 317
3	French (fr) Le Chagrin des Belges		31 792
4	Spanish (es) La pena de Bélgica		6 380
5	Italian (it) La sofferenza del Belgio		6 240
6	Polish (pl) Cały smutek Belgii		3 231
7	Catalan (ca) Het verdriet van België		829
8	Ukrainian (uk) Смуток Бельгії		712

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Le Chagrin des Belges" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Dutch (nl) Het verdriet van België		873
2	English (en) The Sorrow of Belgium		485
3	French (fr) Le Chagrin des Belges		130
4	Catalan (ca) Het verdriet van België		53
5	Polish (pl) Cały smutek Belgii		35
6	Italian (it) La sofferenza del Belgio		33
7	Spanish (es) La pena de Bélgica		18
8	Ukrainian (uk) Смуток Бельгії		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Le Chagrin des Belges" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Het verdriet van België		56
2	English (en) The Sorrow of Belgium		41
3	French (fr) Le Chagrin des Belges		18
4	Italian (it) La sofferenza del Belgio		12
5	Spanish (es) La pena de Bélgica		7
6	Polish (pl) Cały smutek Belgii		7
7	Catalan (ca) Het verdriet van België		2
8	Ukrainian (uk) Смуток Бельгії		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Le Chagrin des Belges" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) La sofferenza del Belgio		2
2	Catalan (ca) Het verdriet van België		0
3	English (en) The Sorrow of Belgium		0
4	Spanish (es) La pena de Bélgica		0
5	French (fr) Le Chagrin des Belges		0
6	Dutch (nl) Het verdriet van België		0
7	Polish (pl) Cały smutek Belgii		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Смуток Бельгії		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Le Chagrin des Belges" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Dutch (nl) Het verdriet van België		45
2	French (fr) Le Chagrin des Belges		11
3	English (en) The Sorrow of Belgium		10
4	Catalan (ca) Het verdriet van België		7
5	Italian (it) La sofferenza del Belgio		6
6	Spanish (es) La pena de Bélgica		3
7	Polish (pl) Cały smutek Belgii		2
8	Ukrainian (uk) Смуток Бельгії		2

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Het verdriet van België
en	English The Sorrow of Belgium
es	Spanish La pena de Bélgica
fr	French Le Chagrin des Belges
it	Italian La sofferenza del Belgio
nl	Dutch Het verdriet van België
pl	Polish Cały smutek Belgii
uk	Ukrainian Смуток Бельгії

Best Rank

French: #129863 03.2016

Global: #133634 03.2008

Best Rank

French: #9172 03.2012

Global: #71584 04.2014

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