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Blaise de Vigenère

1523 - 1596

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Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596) (French pronunciation: [viʒnɛːʁ]) was a French diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Blaise de Vigenère has received more than 130,017 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Blaise de Vigenère is the 1,326th most popular writer (up from 1,422nd in 2019), the 1,515th most popular biography from France (up from 1,622nd in 2019) and the 185th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Les chroniques & annales de Poloigne
History
1573
A discovery of fire and salt
Fire, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Fire
1649
Traicte du feu et du sel
Fire, Salt
1642
La Renaissance du regard
Art, Renaissance, History and criticism, Renaissance Art
1999
Traicté des chiffres, ou, Secretes manieres d'escrire
Cryptography, Cyphers, Early works to 1800
1586
La description du royaume de Poloigne et pays adiacens
Politics and government, Kings and rulers, Description and travel
1573
Traicté des chiffres, ou, Secretes manieres d'escrire
Cryptography, Cyphers, Early works to 1800
1586
A discovery of fire and salt
Fire, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Fire
1649
Traicté des cometes, ou estoilles chevelues, apparoissantes extraordinairement au ciel
Comets, Early works to 1800
1578
Traité du Feu et du Sel
2013
A Discovrse of Fire and Salt
2018
Tratado del Fuego y de la Sal (Archivo Hermetico (Indigo))
2000

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Blaise de Vigenère ranks 1,326 out of 7,302. Before him are Khaqani, Anthony Bourdain, Lee Child, Khaled Hosseini, Antoine-Henri Jomini, and Lyudmila Ulitskaya. After him are Odo of Cluny, Artemidorus, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Lin Yutang, and Allan Pinkerton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1523, Blaise de Vigenère ranks 5. Before him are Catherine Howard, Anna Jagiellon, Gabriele Falloppio, and Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry. After him are Charles de Bourbon, Marco Antonio Bragadin, Stradanus, Gaspara Stampa, Gulbadan Begum, Catherine Carey, and Pieter Pourbus. Among people deceased in 1596, Blaise de Vigenère ranks 5. Before him are Francis Drake, Jean Bodin, Anna Jagiellon, and Koca Sinan Pasha. After him are George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Hamnet Shakespeare, Giaches de Wert, Pierre Pithou, and George Peele.

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In France

Among people born in France, Blaise de Vigenère ranks 1,515 out of 6,770. Before him are Fredegund (545), Humbert of Silva Candida (1000), Henri Giffard (1825), Gustave Charpentier (1860), Henri Cartan (1904), and Guillaume Budé (1467). After him are Odo of Cluny (878), Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560), Adhemar of Le Puy (1055), Hubert Robert (1733), Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (1360), and Michel Serrault (1928).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Blaise de Vigenère ranks 185. Before him are Roland Topor (1938), Edmond François Valentin About (1828), Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734), Paul Scarron (1610), Maurice Barrès (1862), and Michel Verne (1861). After him are Odo of Cluny (878), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Catherine de Bourbon (1559), Henri Murger (1822), Adalberon (947), and Xavier de Maistre (1763).

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