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Jean-François Regnard

1655 - 1709

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Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709), "the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century", was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681. Regnard inherited a fortune from his father, a successful merchant who had given him an excellent classical education; he then increased it, he affirms, by gambling. He took to traveling, and on a return voyage from Italy in 1678 was at the age of twenty-two captured by an Algerian pirate, sold as a slave in Algiers and taken to Constantinople, where the French consul paid ransom for his release. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-François Regnard has received more than 35,358 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jean-François Regnard is the 3,398th most popular writer (down from 2,947th in 2019), the 3,487th most popular biography from France (down from 3,055th in 2019) and the 443rd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean-François Regnard ranks 3,398 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexis Piron, Ferenc Kölcsey, Octave Feuillet, Ella Maillart, Filippo Buonaccorsi, and Gérard de Villiers. After him are Victor Pelevin, Georgi Sava Rakovski, John Henry Mackay, Pierre Bec, Spencer Johnson, and Max Aub.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1655, Jean-François Regnard ranks 13. Before him are Zumbi, Rinaldo d'Este, Bernard de Montfaucon, Johann Christoph Denner, Ferdinand Kettler, and Caspar Bartholin the Younger. After him are Antonio Palomino, Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Christoph Dientzenhofer. Among people deceased in 1709, Jean-François Regnard ranks 19. Before him are George Rooke, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Dimitry of Rostov, Thomas Corneille, Abraham a Sancta Clara, and Alvise II Mocenigo. After him are Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Nicola Saggio, William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, and Edward Lhuyd.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Regnard ranks 3,487 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexis Piron (1689), Octave Feuillet (1821), Jean Yanne (1933), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Gérard de Villiers (1929), and Arthur Morin (1795). After him are Anselm of Laon (1050), Claude Pinoteau (1925), Pierre Bec (1921), Max Aub (1909), Christophe de Margerie (1951), and Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-François Regnard ranks 443. Before him are Daniel Guérin (1904), Robert de Clari (1170), Jean Effel (1908), Alexis Piron (1689), Octave Feuillet (1821), and Gérard de Villiers (1929). After him are Pierre Bec (1921), Max Aub (1909), René Barjavel (1911), Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707), Frédéric Dard (1921), and Alain Chartier (1392).

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