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Antoine François Prévost

1697 - 1763

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Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (UK: PRAY-voh deg-ZEEL, US: pray-VOH -⁠, French: [ɑ̃twan fʁɑ̃swa pʁevo dɛɡzil]; 1 April 1697 – 25 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine François Prévost has received more than 87,042 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Antoine François Prévost is the 671st most popular writer (down from 617th in 2019), the 790th most popular biography from France (down from 699th in 2019) and the 109th most popular French Writer.

Antoine François Prévost is most famous for his novel Manon Lescaut.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antoine François Prévost ranks 671 out of 5,755Before him are Nellie Bly, Vuk Karadžić, Masaru Emoto, Bernart de Ventadorn, Giambattista Basile, and Ivan Goncharov. After him are Ryszard Kapuściński, Osip Mandelstam, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Hardy, Pierre Boulle, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1697, Antoine François Prévost ranks 4Before him are Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Canaletto, and William Hogarth. After him are Johann Joachim Quantz, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Mahmud Hotak, Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, Faustina Bordoni, Nicola Salvi, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Among people deceased in 1763, Antoine François Prévost ranks 3Before him are Augustus III of Poland and Princess Isabella of Parma. After him are Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Cao Xueqin, Pierre de Marivaux, Peter Forsskål, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Gottfried Heinrich Bach, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, and Marco Foscarini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine François Prévost ranks 790 out of 6,011Before him are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Vincent Cassel (1966), Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677), Bernart de Ventadorn (1135), Charlotte of Savoy (1441), and Girard Desargues (1591). After him are Pierre Boulle (1912), Lorin Maazel (1930), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Louise Élisabeth of France (1727), Alain-René Lesage (1668), and Dagobert II (650).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antoine François Prévost ranks 109Before him are Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), Frontinus (30), Georges Perec (1936), Alfred de Vigny (1797), Raymond Queneau (1903), and Bernart de Ventadorn (1135). After him are Pierre Boulle (1912), Alain-René Lesage (1668), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Jean Froissart (1337), and Chevalier d'Éon (1728).