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Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais

1782 - 1854

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Félicité Robert de La Mennais (or Lamennais; 19 June 1782 – 27 February 1854) was a French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was one of the most influential intellectuals of Restoration France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais has received more than 137,135 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais is the 415th most popular philosopher (down from 397th in 2019), the 1,183rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,171st in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Philosopher.

Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais is most famous for his work in the fields of religion and politics. He was a French Catholic priest who became a member of the Académie française in 1835. He was also a political activist who founded the Catholic journal L'Avenir.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 415 out of 1,267. Before him are Phaedo of Elis, Franciscus Patricius, Franz Rosenzweig, Eudemus of Rhodes, Buddhaghosa, and Siger of Brabant. After him are John Philoponus, Bernard of Chartres, Alain de Benoist, Pavel Florensky, Dong Zhongshu, and Olympiodorus the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1782, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 11. Before him are Caroline Bonaparte, Daniel Auber, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Ivan Paskevich, John Field, and Archduke John of Austria. After him are Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, William Miller, Vicente Guerrero, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, John C. Calhoun, and Marcellin Marbot. Among people deceased in 1854, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 6. Before him are Georg Ohm, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Abbas I of Egypt. After him are Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Józef Elsner, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, and Zénaïde Bonaparte.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 1,183 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne de Montmorency (1493), Paulinus of Nola (354), Édith Cresson (1934), Marcel Pagnol (1895), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), and Émile Bernard (1868). After him are Tancred of Hauteville (980), Michel Tournier (1924), Émile Gallé (1846), Paul Bourget (1852), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), and Arnulf of Metz (582).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ranks 54. Before him are René Girard (1923), Jean Gerson (1363), Richard Avenarius (1843), Étienne Gilson (1884), Alain de Lille (1117), and Étienne Cabet (1788). After him are Alain de Benoist (1943), Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), Ernest Gellner (1925), and Emmanuel Mounier (1905).

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