1613 - 1679
Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (20 September 1613 – 24 August 1679) was a French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the Fronde. The Florentine banking and noble Gondi family had been introduced into France by Catherine de' Medici; Catherine offered Jérome (Girolamo) de Gondi in 1573 the château that he made the nucleus of the Château de Saint-Cloud; his hôtel in the Faubourg Saint-Germain of Paris became the Hôtel de Condé in the following generation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean François Paul de Gondi has received more than 63,146 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jean François Paul de Gondi is the 1,860th most popular writer (down from 1,792nd in 2019), the 2,094th most popular biography from France (down from 1,967th in 2019) and the 261st most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 1,860 out of 5,755. Before him are Étienne Dolet, Tristan Corbière, Khurshidbanu Natavan, George MacDonald, Tarjei Vesaas, and Dorothy L. Sayers. After him are Arseny Tarkovsky, Marquis de Custine, Bob Woodward, Hermann Bahr, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and Pjetër Bogdani.
1509 - 1546
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 1,854
1845 - 1875
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 1,855
1832 - 1897
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 1,856
1824 - 1905
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 1,857
1897 - 1970
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 1,858
1893 - 1957
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 1,859
1613 - 1679
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 1,860
1907 - 1989
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 1,861
1790 - 1857
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 1,862
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 1,863
1863 - 1934
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 1,864
1535 - 1615
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 1,865
1630 - 1689
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 1,866
Among people born in 1613, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 10. Before him are Claude Perrault, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, John George II, Elector of Saxony, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Mattia Preti, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori. After him are Luisa de Guzmán, Khushal Khattak, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Gaspard Dughet, Gu Yanwu, and Charles de Saint-Évremond. Among people deceased in 1679, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 14. Before him are Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, Willem van Aelst, Marie de Rohan, Margherita de' Medici, Francesco Barberini, and John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg. After him are Anne Conway, Abraham Mignon, Jan van de Cappelle, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, and John Mayow.
1613 - 1688
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 4
1613 - 1676
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 5
1613 - 1680
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 6
1613 - 1670
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 7
1613 - 1699
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 8
1613 - 1696
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 9
1613 - 1679
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 10
1613 - 1666
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 11
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 12
1613 - 1664
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 13
1613 - 1675
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 14
1613 - 1682
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 15
1613 - 1703
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 16
1619 - 1679
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 8
1627 - 1679
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 9
1600 - 1679
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 10
1612 - 1679
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 11
1597 - 1679
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 12
1625 - 1679
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 13
1613 - 1679
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 14
1631 - 1679
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 15
1640 - 1679
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 16
1624 - 1679
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 17
1626 - 1679
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 18
1616 - 1679
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 19
1640 - 1679
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 20
Among people born in France, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 2,094 out of 6,011. Before him are François Georges-Picot (1870), Jacques Copeau (1879), Joséphin Péladan (1858), Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740), Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (1767), and Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761). After him are Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), Pierre Fournier (1906), Marquis de Custine (1790), Paul Belmondo (1963), Edmond Locard (1877), and Prince Dimitri Romanov (1926).
1870 - 1951
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 2,088
1879 - 1949
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 2,089
1858 - 1918
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 2,090
1740 - 1789
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 2,091
1767 - 1855
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 2,092
1761 - 1845
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 2,093
1613 - 1679
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 2,094
1579 - 1633
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 2,095
1906 - 1986
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 2,096
1790 - 1857
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 2,097
1963 - Present
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 2,098
1877 - 1966
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 2,099
1926 - 2016
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 2,100
Among writers born in France, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 261. Before him are Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734), Jacques Cazotte (1719), Yvan Goll (1891), Michel Zevaco (1860), Étienne Dolet (1509), and Tristan Corbière (1845). After him are Marquis de Custine (1790), Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740), Augustin Barruel (1741), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Julien Gracq (1910), and Philippe Quinault (1635).
1734 - 1793
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 255
1719 - 1792
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 256
1891 - 1950
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 257
1860 - 1918
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 258
1509 - 1546
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 259
1845 - 1875
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 260
1613 - 1679
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 261
1790 - 1857
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 262
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