SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Gabrielle d'Estrées

1573 - 1599

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Gabrielle d'Estrées, Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux (French: [ɡabʁijɛl dɛstʁe]; 1573 – 10 April 1599) was a mistress, confidante and adviser of Henry IV of France. She is noted for her role in ending the religious civil wars that plagued France for more than 30 years. She persuaded Henry to renounce Protestantism in favour of Catholicism in 1593. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabrielle d'Estrées has received more than 362,415 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Gabrielle d'Estrées is the 83rd most popular social activist (down from 72nd in 2019), the 811th most popular biography from France (down from 721st in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Social Activist.

Gabrielle d'Estrees was a French noblewoman who was the mistress of King Henry IV. She was also the mother of his illegitimate son, César de Bourbon.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 83 out of 840. Before her are Axel Munthe, Rashid ad-Din Sinan, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Emilia Plater, and Edmond James de Rothschild. After her are Errico Malatesta, Augusto César Sandino, Fra Dolcino, Amílcar Cabral, Betty Williams, and Toussaint Louverture.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1573, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 4. Before her are Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, William Laud, and Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland. After her are Simon Marius, Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, Inigo Jones, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Ukita Hideie, Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz, Sebastiaen Vrancx, and Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt. Among people deceased in 1599, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 2. Before her is Beatrice Cenci. After her are Edmund Spenser, Maeda Toshiie, Luca Marenzio, Andrew Báthory, Cornelis de Houtman, Chōsokabe Motochika, Eknath, Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Francisco Guerrero, and Simone Peterzano.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 811 out of 6,770. Before her are Robert Nivelle (1856), Inessa Armand (1874), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Victor of Aveyron (1793), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), and Charles Garnier (1825). After her are Antoine Arnauld (1612), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Jean Froissart (1337), Robert Guérin (1876), and Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1766).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 4. Before her are Olympe de Gouges (1748), Charlotte Corday (1768), and Edmond James de Rothschild (1845). After her are Louise Michel (1830), René Cassin (1887), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Flora Tristan (1803), Jacques Roux (1752), René Just Haüy (1743), and Abbé Pierre (1912).

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