WRITER

Jacques Clément

1567 - 1589

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Jacques Clément (1567 – 1 August 1589) was a French conspirator and the regicide of King Henry III. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Clément has received more than 204,855 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jacques Clément is the 921st most popular writer (down from 887th in 2019), the 1,038th most popular biography from France (up from 1,040th in 2019) and the 138th most popular French Writer.

Jacques Clément was a Dominican priest who assassinated King Henry III of France in 1589.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques Clément ranks 921 out of 7,302Before him are Johann Kaspar Lavater, Anna Seghers, Walter Lippmann, Božena Němcová, Thomas Wolfe, and Clifford D. Simak. After him are James May, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Miep Gies, Lucius Accius, Vinicius de Moraes, and Joost van den Vondel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1567, Jacques Clément ranks 8Before him are Francis de Sales, Maurice, Prince of Orange, Date Masamune, Samuel de Champlain, Willem Schouten, and Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain. After him are Sanada Yukimura, Eleanor de' Medici, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Jacob van Heemskerck, Honoré d'Urfé, and Archduchess Margaret of Austria. Among people deceased in 1589, Jacques Clément ranks 3Before him are Henry III of France, and Catherine de' Medici. After him are Christophe Plantin, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Benedict the Moor, Alessandro Farnese, Johannes Sturm, Bernard Palissy, Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Michael Baius, and Charles II, Lord of Monaco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Clément ranks 1,038 out of 6,770Before him are Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Marine Le Pen (1968), Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (1156), and Louise of Lorraine (1553). After him are Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Ernest Chausson (1855), Suzanne Lenglen (1899), Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696), Émile Borel (1871), and Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques Clément ranks 138Before him are Jules Renard (1864), Philippe Ariès (1914), Charles Nodier (1780), Julien Green (1900), Eugène Scribe (1791), and Maurice Druon (1918). After him are Jean de La Bruyère (1645), Pierre Larousse (1817), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Johannes Tauler (1300), George Steiner (1929), and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737).