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Jacques Clément

1567 - 1589

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Jacques Clément (1567 – 1 August 1589) was a French conspirator and the assassin of King Henry III. He was born at Serbonnes, in today's Yonne département, in Burgundy, and became a Dominican lay brother. During the French Wars of Religion, Clément became fanatically religious and an ardent partisan of the Catholic League. Viewing Protestantism as heresy, he talked of exterminating the Huguenots and formed a plan to assassinate Henry III in retaliation for the killing of the Duke of Guise and his brother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Clément has received more than 184,292 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Clément is the 888th most popular writer (up from 931st in 2019), the 1,043rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,048th in 2019) and the 136th most popular French Writer.

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

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  • 19

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Among writers, Jacques Clément ranks 888 out of 5,755. Before him are Thomas Malory, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Clifford D. Simak, Philostratus, Abraham Abulafia, and Wilkie Collins. After him are Georg Brandes, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Rustichello da Pisa, Bertran de Born, and Publilius Syrus.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Clément ranks 1,043 out of 6,011. Before him are Eugène Scribe (1791), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Séraphine Louis (1864), Christian Clavier (1952), Louise Bourgeois (1911), and Jean Vigo (1905). After him are Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1346), Robert IV of Sablé (1150), Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (1778), Adélaïde of France (1732), Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805), and Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques Clément ranks 136. Before him are Annie Ernaux (1940), Antoine Galland (1646), Maurice Denis (1870), Éric Zemmour (1958), Jean de Joinville (1224), and Eugène Scribe (1791). After him are Bertran de Born (1140), Jean de La Bruyère (1645), Charles Maurras (1868), Madame de La Fayette (1634), Georges Bernanos (1888), and André Bazin (1918).

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