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François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy

1644 - 1730

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François de Neufville, 2nd Duke of Villeroy (7 April 1644 – 18 July 1730) was a French Royal Army officer and nobleman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy has received more than 66,130 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 21 in 2019). François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy is the 6,540th most popular politician (down from 5,979th in 2019), the 1,947th most popular biography from France (down from 1,794th in 2019) and the 471st most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy ranks 6,540 out of 19,576Before him are Natan Sharansky, Artabanus of Persia, Emperor Go-Kōgon, Orlando Letelier, Bernardino Rivadavia, and Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes. After him are Maharbal, Zuo Zongtang, Wilhelm Zaisser, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, T. V. Soong, and Emperor Kameyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1644, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy ranks 11Before him are Louise de La Vallière, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Jakob Ammann, Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, and Louis-François de Boufflers. After him are Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha, Jean Jouvenet, Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Juan Bautista Cabanilles, Abraham a Sancta Clara, and Maria d'Este. Among people deceased in 1730, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy ranks 11Before him are Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Hans Hermann von Katte, Jakob Ammann, Árni Magnússon, and Adrienne Lecouvreur. After him are Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, Ashraf Hotak, Patrona Halil, Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, and Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.

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In France

Among people born in France, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy ranks 1,947 out of 6,770Before him are Jules Brunet (1838), Henri de Régnier (1864), Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800), François Pierre La Varenne (1618), Charles Fabry (1867), and Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721). After him are Marcel Schwob (1867), Leslie Caron (1931), Marc Augé (1935), Henry of Flanders (1174), François Magendie (1783), and William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (1024).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy ranks 471Before him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans (1878), Pierre Werner (1913), Chilperic of Aquitaine (600), Paul Durand-Ruel (1831), Louis-François de Boufflers (1644), and Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721). After him are Henry of Flanders (1174), William Clito (1102), Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717), Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740), Félix Gouin (1884), and Ermesinde of Carcassonne (972).