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Jacques-François Blondel

1705 - 1774

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Jacques-François Blondel (8 January 1705 – 9 January 1774) was an 18th-century French architect and teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques-François Blondel has received more than 79,679 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jacques-François Blondel is the 168th most popular architect (up from 174th in 2019), the 1,984th most popular biography from France (up from 2,003rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Architect.

Memorability Metrics

  • 80k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jacques-François Blondels by language

Over the past year Jacques-François Blondel has had the most page views in the with 8,370 views, followed by French (5,718), and Spanish (3,863). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (76.61%), Ukrainian (74.84%), and Basque (61.59%)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 168 out of 518. Before him are David Chipperfield, Mikhail Eisenstein, Carl Ludvig Engel, Michael Ventris, Bernard Tschumi, and Kisho Kurokawa. After him are Carl Ritter von Ghega, Ernst Neufert, Günter Behnisch, William Le Baron Jenney, Joseph Paxton, and Hassan Fathy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 8. Before him are Farinelli, Karim Khan Zand, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Charles-André van Loo, and David Hartley. After him are Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Peter Artedi, Philipp Stamma, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, and Gerhard Friedrich Müller. Among people deceased in 1774, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 8. Before him are Pope Clement XIV, François Quesnay, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Robert Clive, Niccolò Jommelli, and Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken. After him are Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Oliver Goldsmith, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Florian Leopold Gassmann, and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 1,984 out of 6,770. Before him are Yves Bonnefoy (1923), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Hervé Renard (1968), Philippe Honoré (1941), Claude Sautet (1924), and Lothair II of Italy (1000). After him are Mélanie Bonis (1858), Robert de Boron (1110), Jean-Marc Ayrault (1950), Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712), Zénaïde Bonaparte (1801), and Jean Goujon (1510).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 23. Before him are Lúcio Costa (1902), Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), Charlotte Perriand (1903), Philibert de l'Orme (1514), Jean Chalgrin (1739), and Paul Abadie (1812). After him are François Blondel (1618), Paul Andreu (1938), Henri Labrouste (1801), Jacques Lemercier (1585), Quatremère de Quincy (1755), and Matthias of Arras (1290).

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