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Isabelle de Charrière

1740 - 1805

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Isabelle de Charrière (French pronunciation: [izabɛl də ʃaʁjɛʁ]; 20 October 1740 – 27 December 1805), known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands, née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, and [Madame] Isabelle de Charrière (married name) elsewhere, was a Dutch and Swiss writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Colombier, Neuchâtel. She is now best known for her letters and novels, although she also wrote pamphlets, music and plays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isabelle de Charrière has received more than 82,696 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Isabelle de Charrière is the 801st most popular writer (up from 976th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 127th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Dutch Writer.

Isabelle de Charrière is most famous for her 1782 novel, "Letters of a Peruvian Woman," which was one of the first novels written in French by a woman.

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  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 801 out of 5,755. Before her are Virginia Satir, Neale Donald Walsch, Julian Barnes, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Gregory of Narek. After her are Ambrose Bierce, Christopher Tolkien, Muriel Spark, Jane Hawking, Menippus, and Theognis of Megara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 5. Before her are Marquis de Sade, Ivan VI of Russia, Giovanni Paisiello, and Empress Go-Sakuramachi. After her are Jeanne Baret, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Carl Michael Bellman, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann van Beethoven, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. Among people deceased in 1805, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 7. Before her are Friedrich Schiller, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Luigi Boccherini, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, and Claude Chappe. After her are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mihrişah Sultan, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, and William Paley.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 110 out of 1,427. Before her are Gerrit Dou (1613), Adriaen van Ostade (1610), Jan Swammerdam (1637), Marinus van der Lubbe (1909), Menno Simons (1496), and Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480). After her are Willem Janszoon (1570), Simon van der Meer (1925), Cornelis Drebbel (1572), Pieter Aertsen (1508), Paulus Potter (1625), and Joris Ivens (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 3. Before her are Thomas Bernhard (1931) and Multatuli (1820). After her are Robert van Gulik (1910), Etty Hillesum (1914), Harry Mulisch (1927), Cees Nooteboom (1933), Dick Bruna (1927), Constantijn Huygens (1596), Cornelis Tromp (1629), Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), and Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911).

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