1669 - 1741
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (6 April 1671 – 17 March 1741) was a French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his cynical epigrams. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau has received more than 54,207 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Rousseau is the 1,910th most popular writer (down from 1,781st in 2019), the 2,153rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,955th in 2019) and the 269th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ranks 1,910 out of 5,755. Before him are Jonas Lie, Maria Konopnicka, Sister Nivedita, Denis Fonvizin, Ahmad ibn Arabshah, and A. B. Yehoshua. After him are Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, Edmond Jabès, Vita Sackville-West, Dora d'Istria, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Abu Hamid al-Gharnati.
1833 - 1908
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 1,904
1842 - 1910
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 1,905
1867 - 1911
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,906
1745 - 1792
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,907
1389 - 1450
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,908
1936 - 2022
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 1,909
1669 - 1741
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 1,910
1939 - Present
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 1,911
1912 - 1991
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 1,912
1892 - 1962
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 1,913
1828 - 1888
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 1,914
1815 - 1902
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 1,915
1080 - 1170
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 1,916
Among people born in 1669, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ranks 6. Before him are Maria Antonia of Austria, Yevdokiya Lopukhina, Anne Marie d'Orléans, Louis Marchand, and Isabel Luísa, Princess of Beira. After him are Wirich Philipp von Daun, Davit Bek, Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Sébastien Vaillant, Jacob Bruce, and Kanhoji Angre. Among people deceased in 1741, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ranks 9. Before him are Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Johann Joseph Fux, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Jethro Tull, and Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle. After him are Wirich Philipp von Daun, Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Blas de Lezo, Alvise Pisani, and Georg Rafael Donner.
1669 - 1692
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 1
1669 - 1731
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 2
1669 - 1728
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 3
1669 - 1732
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 4
1669 - 1690
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 5
1669 - 1741
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 6
1669 - 1741
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 7
1669 - 1728
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 8
1669 - 1711
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 9
1669 - 1722
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 10
1669 - 1735
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 11
1669 - Present
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 12
1688 - 1741
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 3
1711 - 1741
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 4
1660 - 1741
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 5
1680 - 1741
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 6
1674 - 1741
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 7
1712 - 1741
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 8
1669 - 1741
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 9
1669 - 1741
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 10
1690 - 1741
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 11
1673 - 1741
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 12
1689 - 1741
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 13
1664 - 1741
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 14
1693 - 1741
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 15
Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ranks 2,153 out of 6,011. Before him are François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Gilbert de la Porrée (1070), Manitas de Plata (1921), Henri Gouraud (1867), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989). After him are Augustin Thierry (1795), Carle Vernet (1758), Alexis Korner (1928), Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686), Yann Tiersen (1970), and Jean-Louis Schlesser (1948).
1742 - 1809
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 2,147
1070 - 1154
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 2,148
1921 - 2014
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 2,149
1867 - 1946
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 2,150
1911 - 1986
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 2,151
1989 - Present
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 2,152
1669 - 1741
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 2,153
1795 - 1856
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 2,154
1758 - 1836
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 2,155
1928 - 1984
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 2,156
1686 - 1755
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 2,157
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 2,158
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 2,159
Among writers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ranks 269. Before him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740), Augustin Barruel (1741), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Julien Gracq (1910), Philippe Quinault (1635), and Roger Peyrefitte (1907). After him are Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952), Francis Jammes (1868), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886), Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829), and Jean d'Ormesson (1925).
1740 - 1814
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 263
1741 - 1820
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 264
1905 - 2001
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 265
1910 - 2007
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 266
1635 - 1688
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 267
1907 - 2000
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 268
1669 - 1741
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 269
1786 - 1859
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 270
1952 - 1997
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 271
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 272
1886 - 1956
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 273
1829 - 1871
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 274
1925 - 2017
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 275