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Antoine Furetière

1619 - 1688

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Antoine Furetière (28 December 1619 – 14 May 1688) was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel Scarron's City Romance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Furetière has received more than 35,521 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Antoine Furetière is the 3,636th most popular writer (down from 2,973rd in 2019), the 3,531st most popular biography from France (down from 2,954th in 2019) and the 461st most popular French Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antoine Furetière ranks 3,636 out of 5,755. Before him are Castor of Rhodes, Bertus Aafjes, Nikola Vaptsarov, Justus Jonas, Simon Leys, and Viktor Nekrasov. After him are Peter Bichsel, Sakyo Komatsu, Elaine May, Rube Goldberg, George Washington Williams, and Lars Saabye Christensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1619, Antoine Furetière ranks 20. Before him are Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, Matthias Weckmann, Wang Fuzhi, Johann Rosenmüller, Philip de Koninck, and Otto Marseus van Schrieck. After him are Henry Oldenburg, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, and Marcantonio Giustinian. Among people deceased in 1688, Antoine Furetière ranks 16. Before him are Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, François Bernier, Abraham Duquesne, Philip de Koninck, and Bohuslav Balbín. After him are Marcantonio Giustinian and Ralph Cudworth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Furetière ranks 3,531 out of 6,011. Before him are Robert Jonquet (1925), Louise Weiss (1893), Charles Pasqua (1927), Philippe Étancelin (1896), Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1874), and Raimu (1883). After him are Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Jules Janin (1804), Nicolas Trigault (1577), Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753), Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956), and Adrien Auzout (1622).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antoine Furetière ranks 461. Before him are William of Jumièges (1000), Claude Favre de Vaugelas (1585), Pierre Jean Jouve (1887), Maurice Scève (1501), Jules Barbier (1825), and Louise Weiss (1893). After him are Jules Janin (1804), Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948), Maurice Sachs (1906), Albert Aurier (1865), and Auguste Barbier (1805).

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