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What is a Nation?

1882 lecture by French historian Ernest Renan
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What is a Nation?

Summary

What is a Nation? is a written work[1]. What is a Nation? ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (124 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What is a Nation? authored Ernest Renan[3].
  • What is a Nation?'s instance of is recorded as written work[4].
  • What is a Nation?'s language of work or name is recorded as French[5].
  • What is a Nation? was released on 1887[6].
  • What is a Nation?'s has edition or translation is recorded as Q19225944[7].
  • What is a Nation?'s main subject is nationalism[8].
  • What is a Nation?'s first line is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Je me propose d’analyser avec vous une idée, claire en apparence, mais qui prête aux plus dangereux malentendus.'}[9].
  • What is a Nation?'s last line is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Le moyen d’avoir raison dans l’avenir est, à certaines heures, de savoir se résigner à être démodé.'}[10].
  • What is a Nation?'s copyright status is recorded as public domain[11].
  • What is a Nation?'s copyright status is recorded as public domain[12].

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Designation and Status

What is a Nation?'s instance of is recorded as written work[4].

Why It Matters

What is a Nation? ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (124 views/month).[2] What is a Nation? has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

Related Entities

Ernest Renan public domain

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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    Publication date → +1887-00-00T00:00:00Z
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    Open library id → OL39186961W
    Copyright status → public domain, public domain
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