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Louis XVII of France

1785 - 1795

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Louis XVII (born Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy; 27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795) was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. His older brother, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, died in June 1789, a little over a month before the start of the French Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis XVII of France has received more than 2,498,418 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Louis XVII of France is the 211th most popular politician (up from 257th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from France (up from 101st in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Politician.

Louis XVII was the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He was imprisoned in the Temple Tower, where he died of tuberculosis at the age of 10.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis XVII of France ranks 211 out of 19,576. Before him are Darius III, Joanna of Castile, Heraclius, Amenhotep III, George H. W. Bush, and Haakon VII of Norway. After him are Olav V of Norway, Xi Jinping, Kublai Khan, Jacques Chirac, Tomyris, and Klemens von Metternich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Louis XVII of France ranks 1. After him are Mahmud II, Jacob Grimm, Karl Drais, Alessandro Manzoni, Bettina von Arnim, Lin Zexu, Claude-Louis Navier, Thomas De Quincey, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pierre Louis Dulong, and John James Audubon. Among people deceased in 1795, Louis XVII of France ranks 1. After him are Alessandro Cagliostro, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Sayat-Nova, François-André Danican Philidor, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Georg Benda, Carl Michael Bellman, Ahilyabai Holkar, Josiah Wedgwood, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, and Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis XVII of France ranks 83 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Louis the Pious (778), Henry III of France (1551), Madame du Barry (1743), Louis Braille (1809), and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744). After him are Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis IX of France (1214), Pope Urban II (1042), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Louis XVII of France ranks 20. Before him are Claudius (-10), Louis Philippe I (1773), Charles X of France (1757), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), Louis the Pious (778), and Henry III of France (1551). After him are Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis IX of France (1214), Caracalla (188), Louis XI of France (1423), François Mitterrand (1916), and Philip II of France (1165).

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