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Fabre d'Églantine

1750 - 1794

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Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine (French pronunciation: [filip fʁɑ̃swa nazɛːʁ fabʁ deɡlɑ̃tin]; 28 July 1750 – 5 April 1794), commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine, was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for having invented the names of the months in the French Republican calendar, and for the song Il pleut, il pleut, bergère which is still a popular nursery rhyme today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fabre d'Églantine has received more than 101,990 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Fabre d'Églantine is the 1,346th most popular actor (up from 1,858th in 2019), the 2,109th most popular biography from France (up from 2,625th in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Actor.

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  • 2.67

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Fabre d'Églantine ranks 1,346 out of 13,578Before him are Don Taylor, Michael Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Marisa Mell, Annette Stroyberg, and Hibari Misora. After him are Julia Ormond, Danny Kaye, Sophie Turner, Fabio Testi, Allison Janney, and Deanna Durbin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Fabre d'Églantine ranks 21Before him are Adam Afzelius, Sheikh Mansur, Henri Grégoire, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Lorenzo Mascheroni, and Princess Louise of Denmark. After him are René Louiche Desfontaines, Jacques-François Menou, Bathilde d'Orléans, Túpac Katari, Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden, and Yazid of Morocco. Among people deceased in 1794, Fabre d'Églantine ranks 37Before him are Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Lotf Ali Khan, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, James Bruce, and Paisius Velichkovsky. After him are Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Jacques François Dugommier, François Joseph Westermann, and Nicolas Luckner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Fabre d'Églantine ranks 2,109 out of 6,770Before him are Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960), John III, Duke of Brittany (1286), Carle Vernet (1758), Louis Réard (1897), Henri Mouhot (1826), and Madeleine of Valois (1520). After him are Manitas de Plata (1921), John II, Duke of Lorraine (1425), Charles Friedel (1822), Théodore de Banville (1823), Aimable Pélissier (1794), and Théophile Delcassé (1852).

Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Fabre d'Églantine ranks 105Before him are Claude Brasseur (1936), Jean Sorel (1934), Leslie Caron (1931), Renée Simonot (1911), Brigitte Fossey (1946), and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749). After him are Pierre Clémenti (1942), Martine Carol (1920), Louis Jouvet (1887), François-Joseph Talma (1763), Sami Frey (1937), and Bernadette Lafont (1938).