WRITER

Jean de La Bruyère

1645 - 1696

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Jean de La Bruyère (UK: , UK: , French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la bʁɥijɛʁ]; 16 August 1645 – 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean de La Bruyère has received more than 215,665 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean de La Bruyère is the 933rd most popular writer (down from 896th in 2019), the 1,051st most popular biography from France (up from 1,055th in 2019) and the 139th most popular French Writer.

Jean de la Bruyère is most famous for his satirical work, Les Caractères.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean de La Bruyère ranks 933 out of 7,302. Before him are Joost van den Vondel, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Ann Radcliffe, W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, and Thomas Pynchon. After him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Lafcadio Hearn, Ouyang Xiu, Joyce Carol Oates, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Leconte de Lisle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1645, Jean de La Bruyère ranks 4. Before him are Marc-Antoine Charpentier, William Kidd, and Johann Ambrosius Bach. After him are William Penn, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Aert de Gelder, Francis I Rákóczi, Andreas Werckmeister, Anne Dacier, Eusebio Kino, and Louis Jolliet. Among people deceased in 1696, Jean de La Bruyère ranks 6. Before him are John III Sobieski, Ivan V of Russia, Mariana of Austria, Empress Meishō, and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné. After him are Louise Moillon, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach, Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Murad Giray, and Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean de La Bruyère ranks 1,051 out of 6,770. Before him are Victor, Prince Napoléon (1862), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Danielle Darrieux (1917), Marie Duplessis (1824), Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), and Jean Gerson (1363). After him are Judith of Bavaria (797), Albert Marquet (1875), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), and Jean Mabillon (1632).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean de La Bruyère ranks 139. Before him are Philippe Ariès (1914), Charles Nodier (1780), Julien Green (1900), Eugène Scribe (1791), Maurice Druon (1918), and Jacques Clément (1567). After him are Pierre Larousse (1817), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Johannes Tauler (1300), George Steiner (1929), Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737), and Victorien Sardou (1831).

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