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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 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

Among writers, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 1,860 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1613, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 10Before 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 14Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 2,094 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean François Paul de Gondi ranks 261Before 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).