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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. Later she urged French Catholics to accept the Edict of Nantes, which granted certain rights to the Protestants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabrielle d'Estrées has received more than 345,681 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Gabrielle d'Estrées is the 72nd most popular social activist (down from 71st in 2019), the 722nd most popular biography from France (up from 801st in 2019) and the 3rd 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 72 out of 538Before her are Horst Wessel, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bhagat Singh, Kasturba Gandhi, Jimmy Hoffa, and Beatrice Cenci. After her are Fanny Kaplan, Abimael Guzmán, Buenaventura Durruti, Betty Williams, Aleksandr Ulyanov, and Annie Besant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1573, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 5Before her are Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland, William Laud, and Simon Marius. After her are Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, Inigo Jones, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz, Sebastiaen Vrancx, Ukita Hideie, and Robert Catesby. Among people deceased in 1599, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 2Before her is Beatrice Cenci. After her are Edmund Spenser, Luca Marenzio, Maeda Toshiie, Andrew Báthory, Eknath, Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Chōsokabe Motochika, Cornelis de Houtman, Simone Peterzano, and Francisco Guerrero.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 722 out of 6,011Before her are Raoul Dufy (1877), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Marin Marais (1656), Jean Giraud (1938), Robert Doisneau (1912), and Louis Le Vau (1612). After her are Raymond Aron (1905), Pope Stephen IX (1020), Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (1490), Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838), Charles-François Daubigny (1817), and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Gabrielle d'Estrées ranks 3Before her are Charlotte Corday (1768) and Olympe de Gouges (1748). After her are Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), René Cassin (1887), Louise Michel (1830), Flora Tristan (1803), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Jacques Roux (1752), Abbé Pierre (1912), and René Just Haüy (1743).