Lettres persanes

Persian Letters - 1721 literary work by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu. This book is the 1351^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 91^st most popular book in French Wikipedia. Article “Lettres persanes” in French Wikipedia has 62.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 35 references and 26 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Lettres persanes” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lettres persanes”, its content was written by 197 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 552 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Persian Letters is on the 91^st place in local ranking of books in French Wikipedia and on the 1351^st place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 143 times in French Wikipedia and cited 518 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #455 in March 2017
• Global: #24250 in January 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #1881 in June 2009
• Global: #58300 in November 2008

There are 22 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	French (fr) Lettres persanes		62.9392
2	German (de) Persische Briefe		49.4287
3	English (en) Persian Letters		33.944
4	Greek (el) Περσικές επιστολές		26.8503
5	Italian (it) Lettere persiane		22.1566
6	Bulgarian (bg) Персийски писма		17.5434
7	Chinese (zh) 波斯人信札		17.4685
8	Finnish (fi) Persialaisia kirjeitä		16.9852
9	Dutch (nl) Perzische brieven		16.9769
10	Turkish (tr) İran Mektupları		16.0899

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lettres persanes" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Lettres persanes		2 417 349
2	English (en) Persian Letters		687 202
3	Spanish (es) Cartas persas		266 310
4	German (de) Persische Briefe		110 746
5	Persian (fa) نامه‌های ایرانی		96 331
6	Russian (ru) Персидские письма		92 996
7	Portuguese (pt) Cartas Persas		83 156
8	Polish (pl) Listy perskie		47 489
9	Chinese (zh) 波斯人信札		37 574
10	Dutch (nl) Perzische brieven		33 225

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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 "Lettres persanes" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Lettres persanes		5 702
2	English (en) Persian Letters		1 621
3	Spanish (es) Cartas persas		557
4	Italian (it) Lettere persiane		441
5	German (de) Persische Briefe		303
6	Persian (fa) نامه‌های ایرانی		281
7	Portuguese (pt) Cartas Persas		269
8	Russian (ru) Персидские письма		254
9	Chinese (zh) 波斯人信札		205
10	Japanese (ja) ペルシア人の手紙		174

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

Language versions of the article "Lettres persanes" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Lettres persanes		197
2	English (en) Persian Letters		102
3	German (de) Persische Briefe		56
4	Persian (fa) نامه‌های ایرانی		24
5	Russian (ru) Персидские письма		20
6	Dutch (nl) Perzische brieven		18
7	Polish (pl) Listy perskie		16
8	Chinese (zh) 波斯人信札		16
9	Spanish (es) Cartas persas		15
10	Hungarian (hu) Perzsa levelek		14

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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 "Lettres persanes" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Persische Briefe		2
2	French (fr) Lettres persanes		2
3	Italian (it) Lettere persiane		1
4	Russian (ru) Персидские письма		1
5	Arabic (ar) رسائل فارسية		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Персийски писма		0
7	Catalan (ca) Cartes perses		0
8	Greek (el) Περσικές επιστολές		0
9	English (en) Persian Letters		0
10	Spanish (es) Cartas persas		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 "Lettres persanes" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Lettres persanes		143
2	English (en) Persian Letters		69
3	German (de) Persische Briefe		56
4	Spanish (es) Cartas persas		36
5	Italian (it) Lettere persiane		32
6	Persian (fa) نامه‌های ایرانی		22
7	Russian (ru) Персидские письма		22
8	Ukrainian (uk) Перські листи		17
9	Catalan (ca) Cartes perses		16
10	Portuguese (pt) Cartas Persas		16

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic رسائل فارسية
bg	Bulgarian Персийски писма
ca	Catalan Cartes perses
de	German Persische Briefe
el	Greek Περσικές επιστολές
en	English Persian Letters
es	Spanish Cartas persas
eu	Basque Persiar gutunak
fa	Persian نامه‌های ایرانی
fi	Finnish Persialaisia kirjeitä
fr	French Lettres persanes
hu	Hungarian Perzsa levelek
it	Italian Lettere persiane
ja	Japanese ペルシア人の手紙
ko	Korean 페르시아인의 편지
nl	Dutch Perzische brieven
pl	Polish Listy perskie
pt	Portuguese Cartas Persas
ru	Russian Персидские письма
tr	Turkish İran Mektupları
uk	Ukrainian Перські листи
zh	Chinese 波斯人信札

Best Rank

French: #1881 06.2009

Global: #58300 11.2008

Best Rank

French: #455 03.2017

Global: #24250 01.2011

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