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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

1675 - 1755

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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE (French pronunciation: [lwi də ʁuvʁwa]; 16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in 1876 to make way for the Boulevard Saint-Germain). The family's ducal peerage (duché-pairie), granted in 1635 to his father Claude de Rouvroy (1608–1693), served as both perspective and theme in Saint-Simon's life and writings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon has received more than 216,397 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon is the 1,176th most popular writer (up from 1,229th in 2019), the 1,359th most popular biography from France (up from 1,378th in 2019) and the 174th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 1,176 out of 5,755Before him are Theodor Storm, Léon Bloy, Elsa Triolet, Sophia Tolstaya, Léon Werth, and Adolfo Bioy Casares. After him are Chinua Achebe, Arthur Hailey, Matteo Bandello, Tove Ditlevsen, Antarah ibn Shaddad, and Kassia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1675, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 3Before him are Pope Benedict XIV and Emperor Higashiyama. After him are Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Tarabai, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, William Jones, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Samuel Clarke, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Guillaume Delisle. Among people deceased in 1755, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 3Before him are Montesquieu and Gerard Majella. After him are Francesco Durante, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, Johann Georg Gmelin, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Johann Georg Pisendel, Philipp Stamma, Stepan Krasheninnikov, and Edward Braddock.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 1,359 out of 6,011Before him are Léon Bloy (1846), Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764), André de Montbard (1103), Louise de Marillac (1591), Léon Werth (1878), and Jules Chéret (1836). After him are Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761), Albert Marquet (1875), Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725), Isabella of Valois (1389), André Lhote (1885), and Heinz Harmel (1906).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 174Before him are Paul Scarron (1610), Michel Tournier (1924), Jean Giono (1895), Alain-Fournier (1886), Léon Bloy (1846), and Léon Werth (1878). After him are Henri Murger (1822), Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711), Paul Bourget (1852), Roger Caillois (1913), Pierre de Marivaux (1688), and Vivant Denon (1747).