NOBLEMAN

Françoise-Louise de Warens

1699 - 1762

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Françoise-Louise de Warens, born Louise Éléonore de la Tour du Pil, also called Madame de Warens (31 March 1699 – 29 July 1762), was the benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Warens was born in Vevey, into a Swiss Protestant family who had immigrated to Annecy, but became a Roman Catholic in 1726 in order to receive a church pension which had been instated to increase the spread of Roman Catholicism near Geneva, then a bastion of Protestantism. She was known to have led a liberal life for a woman of her time. She annulled her marriage to M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Françoise-Louise de Warens has received more than 105,920 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Françoise-Louise de Warens is the 572nd most popular nobleman, the 218th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 3rd most popular Swiss Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Françoise-Louise de Warens ranks 572 out of 1,415. Before her are Emma of France, Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, Peter, Constable of Portugal, Louis I, Count of Nevers, Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg, and Anne of Austria, Margravine of Brandenburg. After her are Boniface, Count of Savoy, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, Princess Xenia of Montenegro, Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia, Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, and Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1699, Françoise-Louise de Warens ranks 10. Before her are Maria Josepha of Austria, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Johann Adolph Hasse, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, and Anna Leszczyńska. After her are Alamgir II, Mastani, Hans Joachim von Zieten, Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Bernard de Jussieu, and Rafi ud-Darajat. Among people deceased in 1762, Françoise-Louise de Warens ranks 15. Before her are Francesco Geminiani, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jean Calas, and Tobias Mayer. After her are Teimuraz II of Kakheti, Dorothea Erxleben, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Stanisław Poniatowski, Francesco Manfredini, and Francesco Loredan.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Françoise-Louise de Warens ranks 218 out of 1,015. Before her are Jean Starobinski (1920), Wiborada (900), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Alain Berset (1972), Meyer Guggenheim (1828), and Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168). After her are Adolphe Appia (1862), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Robert Miles (1969), Denis de Rougemont (1906), George de Mestral (1907), and Pascal Couchepin (1942).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Switzerland

Among noblemen born in Switzerland, Françoise-Louise de Warens ranks 3. Before her are Albert I of Germany (1255), and Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168). After her are Princess Elena of Romania (1950), Henry, Duke of Parma (1873), and Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein (1969).

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