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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

1749 - 1791

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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (French: [miʁabo]; 9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791) was a French writer, orator, statesman and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution. A member of the nobility, Mirabeau had been involved in numerous scandals that had left his reputation in ruins. Well-known for his oratory skills, Mirabeau quickly rose to the top of the French political hierarchy following his election to the Estates-General in 1789, and was recognized as a leader of the newly organized National Assembly. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau has received more than 825,509 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau is the 257th most popular writer (up from 280th in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from France (up from 325th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Writer.

Gabriel Honoré Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau is most famous for his advocacy of the abolition of feudalism and the introduction of a constitutional monarchy.

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Notable Works

Secret memoirs of the court of Berlin
France
1901
The Lifted Curtain
1986
Reflections on the Observations on the importance of the American revolution, and the means of making it a benefit to the world
1786
Discours de Monsieur Mirabeau l'aine , sur l'e ducation nationale
1791
Considérations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus
1784
Discours prononce par M. le comte de Mirabeau, dans la se ance du vendredi 20 novembre, sur le projet de banque nationale, pre sente par le premier ministre des finances
1789

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau ranks 257 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter Handke, Kālidāsa, Nelly Sachs, François Mauriac, Anna Akhmatova, and Shota Rustaveli. After him are Geoffrey Chaucer, Sallust, Johannes V. Jensen, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and François de La Rochefoucauld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau ranks 5. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Edward Jenner, and Christian VII of Denmark. After him are Nicolas Appert, Yolande de Polastron, Domenico Cimarosa, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Daniel Rutherford, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Among people deceased in 1791, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau ranks 2. Before him is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After him are Grigory Potemkin, John Wesley, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Jacob Frank, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Ignaz von Born, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Joseph Gaertner, João de Loureiro, and Besiki.

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In France

Among people born in France, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau ranks 303 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), Germaine de Staël (1766), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), François Mauriac (1885), and Jacques de Molay (1243). After him are John I of France (1316), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), René Goscinny (1926), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), and William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau ranks 48. Before him are Pierre Corneille (1606), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Frédéric Mistral (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Germaine de Staël (1766), and François Mauriac (1885). After him are François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Paul Valéry (1871), Colette (1873), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), and Chrétien de Troyes (1135).

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