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Charles de Brosses

1709 - 1777

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Charles de Brosses (French: [də bʁɔs]), comte de Tournay, baron de Montfalcon, seigneur de Vezins et de Prevessin (7 February 1709 – 7 May 1777), was a French scholar of the 18th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles de Brosses has received more than 76,705 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Charles de Brosses is the 2,156th most popular writer (down from 2,150th in 2019), the 2,405th most popular biography from France (down from 2,397th in 2019) and the 305th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 55.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Histoire des navigations aux Terres Australes
Voyages and travels, Early works to 1800, Discovery and exploration
1756
Le président de Brosses et ses amis de Genève
Correspondence
1939
Du culte des dieux fétiches
Fetishism
1760
Selections From The Letters Of De Brosses
2018
History of the Navigation of the Australasian Lands
2016
The Returns of Fetishism
Fetishism, Fetishes (ceremonial objects), History
2017

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles de Brosses ranks 2,156 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Féval, père, Sabahattin Ali, Aleksander Chodźko, Musa Cälil, Paul the Silentiary, and Siri Hustvedt. After him are Amrita Pritam, Eduard Uspensky, Paul Morand, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Ernst Robert Curtius, and Al-Farazdaq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Charles de Brosses ranks 14. Before him are Franz Benda, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Tokugawa Ietsugu, and Alexei Razumovsky. After him are Johann Georg Gmelin, Franz Xaver Richter, Étienne de Silhouette, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, John Cleland, and Francesco Araja. Among people deceased in 1777, Charles de Brosses ranks 8. Before him are Johann Heinrich Lambert, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Albrecht von Haller, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, Maxim Berezovsky, and Georg Christoph Wagenseil. After him are Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Johann Andreas Segner, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, and Dai Zhen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles de Brosses ranks 2,405 out of 6,770. Before him are Johann Hermann (1738), Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), Urbain Grandier (1590), Charles Munch (1891), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), and Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (1754). After him are René Pleven (1901), Gilbert de la Porrée (1070), Louis Duchesne (1843), Marie Dubois (1937), Paul Morand (1888), and Germanus of Auxerre (378).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Charles de Brosses ranks 305. Before him are François Coppée (1842), Gaston Paris (1839), Maurice Joly (1829), Yvan Goll (1891), Savitri Devi (1905), and Paul Féval, père (1816). After him are Paul Morand (1888), Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886), Michel Leiris (1901), Isaac the Blind (1160), and Auguste Maquet (1813).

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