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Uncommon card · History
Maurice Barrès, an Uncommon card
Auguste-Maurice Barrès was an anti-Semitic French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 146 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Maurice Barrès quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Maurice Barrès card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was elected a member of the ______ Française in 1906.
Answer
Académie. He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1906. From the Maurice Barrès article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in ____.
Answer
1880s. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888. From the Maurice Barrès article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888.
- He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1906.
- In politics, Barrès was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889 as a Boulangist and would play a prominent political role for the rest of his life.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Maurice Barrès article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Maurice Barrès
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Maurice Barrès (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Auguste Léon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
