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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

1627 - 1704

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Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (French: [bɔsɥɛ]; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses and literary works, he is regarded as a brilliant orator and literary stylist of the French language. A native of Dijon, Bossuet was educated at a Jesuit school before enrolling in the College of Navarre in Paris, where he studied philosophy and theology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet has received more than 482,369 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet is the 499th most popular writer (down from 457th in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from France (down from 536th in 2019) and the 87th most popular French Writer.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was a French bishop, theologian, and statesman. He is most famous for his "Discourse on Universal History" which is a history of the world from the time of Adam to the present.

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Notable Works

Histoire des variations des églises protestantes
Protestant churches
1688
Discours sur l'histoire universelle
1681
Bossuet
1800
Oraisons funèbres
1800
Oeuvres complètes de Bossuet
1836
Oeuvres
1815
An exposition of the doctrine of the Catholic Church in matters of controversie
Catholic Church, Doctrines, Doctrinal and controversial works
1685
Oeuvres
1815
Histoire des variations des églises protestantes
Church history, Histoire, History
1688
Oraisons funèbres
Catholic Church, Early works to 1800, French Sermons
1800
Oeuvres complètes de Bossuet
Catholic Church, History, Church history
1836
Discours sur l'histoire universelle
Early works to 1800, Histoire universelle, Universal History
1681

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ranks 499 out of 7,302. Before him are Eugene O'Neill, Muhammad Iqbal, Patricia Highsmith, George R. R. Martin, G. K. Chesterton, and Christopher Marlowe. After him are Henri Barbusse, Gérard de Nerval, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Thomas Paine, Baldassare Castiglione, and Philip Larkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ranks 4. Before him are Robert Boyle, Turhan Hatice Sultan, and Shivaji. After him are Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Aşub Sultan, John Ray, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Willem van Aelst, Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau, Petro Doroshenko, and Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi. Among people deceased in 1704, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ranks 3. Before him are John Locke, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier. After him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Georg Muffat, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Isabella Leonarda, Selim I Giray, and Charles Plumier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ranks 584 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Luigi Lucheni (1873), Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), Francis, Duke of Guise (1519), and Maurice Jarre (1924). After him are Henri Barbusse (1873), René Lacoste (1904), Gérard de Nerval (1808), Joseph Proust (1754), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), and Roger Garaudy (1913).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet ranks 87. Before him are Héloïse (1101), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Jules Michelet (1798), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), and Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394). After him are Henri Barbusse (1873), Gérard de Nerval (1808), Anaïs Nin (1903), Alfred Jarry (1873), Camille Flammarion (1842), and Marie-Antoine Carême (1784).

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