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Jean François Paul de Gondi

1613 - 1679

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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 70,541 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jean François Paul de Gondi is the 1,525th most popular writer (up from 1,855th in 2019), the 1,769th most popular biography from France (up from 2,087th in 2019) and the 222nd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 1,525 out of 7,302. Before him are Diagoras of Melos, Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Madame d'Aulnoy, Eduard Mörike, Vasil Bykaŭ, and Camilla Läckberg. After him are Edward Albee, Juan Goytisolo, Catherine of Bologna, Anne Desclos, Carson McCullers, and Rainis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1613, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 9. Before him are André Le Nôtre, Claude Perrault, John George II, Elector of Saxony, Mattia Preti, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori. After him are Bartholomeus van der Helst, Khushal Khattak, Luisa de Guzmán, Gaspard Dughet, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, and Gu Yanwu. Among people deceased in 1679, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 11. Before him are Joost van den Vondel, John of Austria the Younger, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Marie de Rohan, Willem van Aelst, and Anne Geneviève de Bourbon. After him are Francesco Barberini, Margherita de' Medici, John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, Anne Conway, Abraham Mignon, and Jan van Kessel the Elder.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 1,769 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Charlotte of Albret (1480), Blanche of Bourbon (1339), Gersonides (1288), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), and La Goulue (1866). After him are Nicolas de Largillière (1656), Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Anne Desclos (1907), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), and Lambert Wilson (1958).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 222. Before him are Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Georges Duhamel (1884), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Henry de Montherlant (1895), Louise Labé (1524), and Madame d'Aulnoy (1651). After him are Anne Desclos (1907), Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880), Raymond Roussel (1877), Antoine de Montchrestien (1575), Marcel Achard (1899), and Anna de Noailles (1876).

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