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Jacques Collin de Plancy

1794 - 1881

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Jacques Albin Simon Collin de Plancy (28 January 1793 in Plancy-l'Abbaye – 1881 in Paris) was a French occultist, demonologist and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Collin de Plancy has received more than 134,326 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Collin de Plancy is the 2,685th most popular writer (down from 2,105th in 2019), the 2,924th most popular biography from France (down from 2,360th in 2019) and the 364th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques Collin de Plancy ranks 2,685 out of 7,302Before him are Herbert Read, Krishna Sobti, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Petar Hektorović, Harlan Ellison, and Labīd. After him are Alex Haley, Jean-François de La Harpe, David Lagercrantz, Giuseppe Giacosa, Horace McCoy, and Robert M. Pirsig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Jacques Collin de Plancy ranks 25Before him are Ami Boué, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Achille Richard, and Jean Pierre Flourens. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, René Lesson, Jacques Babinet, Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Carl Borivoj Presl. Among people deceased in 1881, Jacques Collin de Plancy ranks 46Before him are Ami Boué, Aga Khan I, Émile Littré, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, John Gould, and Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau. After him are Jules Armand Dufaure, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Jane Digby, Jim Bridger, August Šenoa, and Karl Weyprecht.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Collin de Plancy ranks 2,924 out of 6,770Before him are Othon Friesz (1879), Victor de Broglie (1785), Gérard Larrousse (1940), Michel Marcel Navratil (1908), Rainulf Drengot (1000), and Philip I of Namur (1174). After him are Jacques Brugnon (1895), Bertha of Kent (550), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741), Olivier Assayas (1955), and Daniel Gélin (1921).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques Collin de Plancy ranks 364Before him are Paschasius Radbertus (792), Varro Atacinus (-82), Jules Guesde (1845), Mirra Alfassa (1878), Petrus Comestor (1100), and Lupus Servatus (805). After him are Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Violette Leduc (1907), Hildebert (1056), Juliette Adam (1836), Oscar Cullmann (1902), and Max Gallo (1932).