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François Pierre La Varenne

1618 - 1678

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François Pierre de la Varenne (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa pjɛʁ də la vaʁɛn], 1615–1678 in Dijon), Burgundian by birth, was the author of Le Cuisinier françois (1651), one of the most influential cookbooks in early modern French cuisine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Pierre La Varenne has received more than 139,283 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). François Pierre La Varenne is the 1,693rd most popular writer (up from 1,847th in 2019), the 1,926th most popular biography from France (up from 2,039th in 2019) and the 242nd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, François Pierre La Varenne ranks 1,693 out of 5,755Before him are Augusto Roa Bastos, Rodulfus Glaber, Minamoto no Sanetomo, Henri de Régnier, Ödön von Horváth, and Branko Ćopić. After him are Julius Firmicus Maternus, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Manuel Puig, John Gay, Adamantios Korais, and Voltairine de Cleyre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, François Pierre La Varenne ranks 6Before him are Aurangzeb, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Jeremiah Horrocks, and Hishikawa Moronobu. After him are François Blondel, Jan Dirksz Both, Juraj Križanić, Peter Lely, Michiel Sweerts, and Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy. Among people deceased in 1678, François Pierre La Varenne ranks 6Before him are Jacob Jordaens, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Wu Sangui, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten. After him are Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Karel Dujardin, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Antoine III de Gramont, Christoph Bernhard von Galen, and Caesar van Everdingen.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Pierre La Varenne ranks 1,926 out of 6,011Before him are Dominique Venner (1935), Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578), Yves Bonnefoy (1923), Rodulfus Glaber (985), Henri de Régnier (1864), and Franck Pourcel (1913). After him are Charles IV, Duke of Alençon (1489), Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915), Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721), Aimable Pélissier (1794), Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767), and René-Louis Baire (1874).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François Pierre La Varenne ranks 242Before him are Robert de Boron (1110), Philippe de Commines (1447), Edmond François Valentin About (1828), Dominique Venner (1935), Rodulfus Glaber (985), and Henri de Régnier (1864). After him are Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Jules Romains (1885), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Pierre Plantard (1920), Pierre Reverdy (1889), and Marcel Schwob (1867).