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Jean-Baptiste Dubos

1670 - 1742

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Jean-Baptiste Dubos (French: [dybo]; 14 December 1670 – 23 March 1742), also referred to as l'Abbé Du Bos, was a French author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Dubos has received more than 38,106 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Dubos is the 2,452nd most popular writer (down from 2,267th in 2019), the 2,705th most popular biography from France (down from 2,502nd in 2019) and the 344th most popular French Writer.

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Notable Works

Critical Reflections on Poetry; Volume 1
Réflexions critiques sur la poësie et sur la peinture
Early works to 1800, History and criticism, Poetry
Reflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture
Arts, Theater, Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
Réflexions Critiques Sur la Poësie et Sur la Peinture Volume Pt. 3
Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music. with an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients
Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture
Art and literature, Arts, History

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean-Baptiste Dubos ranks 2,452 out of 7,302Before him are Petar Preradović, E. Nesbit, Chariton, Didymus Chalcenterus, Claude Farrère, and Philostratus of Lemnos. After him are Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Predrag Matvejević, Léon Werth, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Parthenius of Nicaea, and Guan Hanqing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1670, Jean-Baptiste Dubos ranks 14Before him are James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje, and Zheng Keshuang. After him are Domenico Trezzini, Turlough O'Carolan, Olof Celsius, Banda Singh Bahadur, Julie d'Aubigny, and Köprülüzade Numan Pasha. Among people deceased in 1742, Jean-Baptiste Dubos ranks 10Before him are Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Pylyp Orlyk, Arvid Horn, Luigi Guido Grandi, and Friedrich Hoffmann. After him are Carlos Seixas, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Willem 's Gravesande, Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg, and Richard Bentley.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Dubos ranks 2,705 out of 6,770Before him are Émile Cohl (1857), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Ferdinand Hérold (1791), Charles Lecocq (1832), Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (1913), and Claude Farrère (1876). After him are Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), Roger Piantoni (1931), Marie Elisabeth of France (1572), Paul Héroult (1863), and Léon Werth (1878).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Dubos ranks 344Before him are Paul Hazard (1878), Dominique Lapierre (1931), Philippe de Mornay (1549), Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732), Louise Colet (1810), and Claude Farrère (1876). After him are Léon Werth (1878), Ludovic Halévy (1834), Sextus Pompeius Festus (150), Valery Larbaud (1881), Walter of Châtillon (1135), and Gustave Aimard (1818).