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Adrienne Lecouvreur

1692 - 1730

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Adrienne Lecouvreur (5 April 1692 – 20 March 1730), born Adrienne Couvreur, was a French actress, considered by many as the greatest of her time. Born in Damery, she first appeared professionally on the stage in Lille. After her Paris debut at the Comédie-Française in 1717, she was immensely popular with the public. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adrienne Lecouvreur has received more than 104,112 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Adrienne Lecouvreur is the 1,137th most popular actor (down from 1,002nd in 2019), the 1,856th most popular biography from France (down from 1,630th in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Actor.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 1,137 out of 13,578Before her are Michael Fassbender, David Thewlis, Billy Dee Williams, Michel Bouquet, Otto Sander, and Dana Elcar. After her are Ciarán Hinds, James Faulkner, Adel Emam, Silvia Pinal, Akiko Wakabayashi, and Gunnar Björnstrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1692, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 6Before her are Giuseppe Tartini, Elisabeth Farnese, Pieter van Musschenbroek, Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, and Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon. After her are Frederick William, Duke of Courland, Joseph Butler, Alessandro Albani, James Stirling, Louisa Maria Stuart, and Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer. Among people deceased in 1730, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 10Before her are Leonardo Vinci, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Hans Hermann von Katte, Jakob Ammann, and Árni Magnússon. After her are François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Ashraf Hotak, Patrona Halil, and Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 1,856 out of 6,770Before her are Charles Dupuy (1851), Pierre Beauchamp (1631), Raoul Salan (1899), Camille Doncieux (1847), Le Pétomane (1857), and Étienne Méhul (1763). After her are Pierre Bergé (1930), Liane de Pougy (1869), Édouard Roche (1820), Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758), Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911), and Charles Paul de Kock (1793).

Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Adrienne Lecouvreur ranks 95Before her are Alain Cuny (1908), Emmanuelle Seigner (1966), Lambert Wilson (1958), Hervé Villechaize (1943), Christiane Martel (1936), and Michel Bouquet (1925). After her are Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911), Catherine Spaak (1945), François Périer (1919), Claude Brasseur (1936), Jean Sorel (1934), and Leslie Caron (1931).