1709 - 1777
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 71,881 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles de Brosses is the 2,157th most popular writer (down from 2,010th in 2019), the 2,405th most popular biography from France (down from 2,175th in 2019) and the 310th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Charles de Brosses ranks 2,157 out of 5,755. Before him are Kristijonas Donelaitis, Princess Michael of Kent, Idries Shah, Saki, Marcel Achard, and Paul Féval, père. After him are Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Lucilius Junior, Oscar Milosz, Cigerxwîn, Phocylides, and Magnús Scheving.
1714 - 1780
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 2,151
1945 - Present
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 2,152
1924 - 1996
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 2,153
1870 - 1916
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 2,154
1899 - 1974
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 2,155
1816 - 1887
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 2,156
1709 - 1777
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 2,157
1906 - 1988
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 2,158
6 - 100
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 2,159
1877 - 1939
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 2,160
1903 - 1984
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 2,161
560 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 2,162
1964 - Present
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 2,163
Among people born in 1709, Charles de Brosses ranks 16. Before him are Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Franz Xaver Richter, Johann Georg Gmelin, Tokugawa Ietsugu, and Alexei Razumovsky. After him are Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, John Cleland, Étienne de Silhouette, Francesco Araja, Antonio Rinaldi, and Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1777, Charles de Brosses ranks 8. Before him are Joseph I of Portugal, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Albrecht von Haller, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, and Johann Andreas Segner. After him are Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Maxim Berezovsky, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, and Bernard de Jussieu.
1709 - 1785
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 10
1709 - 1782
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 11
1709 - 1789
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 12
1709 - 1755
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 13
1709 - 1716
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 14
1709 - 1771
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 15
1709 - 1777
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 16
1709 - 1788
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 17
1709 - 1789
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 18
1709 - 1767
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 19
1709 - 1770
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 20
1709 - 1794
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 21
1709 - 1729
HPI: 49.08
Rank: 22
1714 - 1777
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 2
1727 - 1777
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 3
1708 - 1777
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 4
1699 - 1777
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 5
1715 - 1777
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 6
1704 - 1777
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 7
1709 - 1777
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 8
1747 - 1777
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 9
1745 - 1777
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 10
1700 - 1777
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 11
1744 - 1777
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 12
1710 - 1777
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 13
1699 - 1777
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 14
Among people born in France, Charles de Brosses ranks 2,405 out of 6,011. Before him are René Pleven (1901), Marie of Lorraine (1674), Victor Noir (1848), Princess Anne of Orléans (1906), Paul Féval, père (1816), and Alexandre Ribot (1842). After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), Ford Madox Brown (1821), Princess Françoise of Orléans (1844), Alain Bombard (1924), and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801).
1901 - 1993
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 2,399
1674 - 1724
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 2,400
1848 - 1870
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 2,401
1906 - 1986
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 2,402
1816 - 1887
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 2,403
1842 - 1923
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 2,404
1709 - 1777
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 2,405
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 2,406
945 - 965
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 2,407
1821 - 1893
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 2,408
1844 - 1925
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 2,409
1924 - 2005
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 2,410
1801 - 1887
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 2,411
Among writers born in France, Charles de Brosses ranks 310. Before him are Gabriel Matzneff (1936), Elena Poniatowska (1932), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Albert Gleizes (1881), Marcel Achard (1899), and Paul Féval, père (1816). After him are René Crevel (1900), Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716), Magnus Felix Ennodius (473), Yasmina Reza (1959), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812), and Walter of Châtillon (1135).
1936 - Present
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 304
1932 - Present
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 305
1815 - 1888
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 306
1881 - 1953
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 307
1899 - 1974
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 308
1816 - 1887
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 309
1709 - 1777
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 310
1900 - 1935
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 311
1716 - 1795
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 312
473 - 521
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 313
1959 - Present
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 314
1812 - 1859
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 315
1135 - 1201
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 316