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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 33,301 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jean-François Regnard is the 2,958th most popular writer (up from 3,154th in 2019), the 3,066th most popular biography from France (up from 3,081st in 2019) and the 381st most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Jean-François Regnard ranks 2,958 out of 5,755. Before him are Adrienne Rich, Yu Kil-chun, Sebastian Franck, Michael Bond, Mihály Babits, and Elia Levita. After him are Alexandros Papadiamantis, Silvio Pellico, Antiphanes, Vydūnas, Friedrich Wolf, and Caroline Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1655, Jean-François Regnard ranks 14. Before him are Rinaldo d'Este, Johann Christoph Denner, Philippe, Duke of Vendôme, Ferdinand Kettler, Caspar Bartholin the Younger, and Bernard de Montfaucon. After him are Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Antonio Palomino, Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal, and Christoph Dientzenhofer. Among people deceased in 1709, Jean-François Regnard ranks 15. Before him are Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, François de la Chaise, Dimitry of Rostov, and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. After him are Alvise II Mocenigo, Thomas Corneille, Abraham a Sancta Clara, George Rooke, Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Nicola Saggio.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Regnard ranks 3,066 out of 6,011. Before him are Auguste Herbin (1882), Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1877), Joseph de Guignes (1721), Paul Veyne (1930), Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763), and Bernard de Montfaucon (1655). After him are Jacques Duclos (1896), Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955), Jean Guillou (1930), Bafétimbi Gomis (1985), Firmin Abauzit (1679), and Bulle Ogier (1939).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-François Regnard ranks 381. Before him are Gérard de Villiers (1929), Pierre Gringore (1475), Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Catulle Mendès (1841), Bernard Werber (1961), and Henri Meilhac (1831). After him are Daniel Guérin (1904), Vincent Voiture (1597), Charles Blanc (1813), Eugène Burnouf (1801), Pascal Quignard (1948), and Judith Gautier (1845).

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