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Louise de La Vallière

1644 - 1710

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Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours (6 August 1644 – 7 June 1710) was a French noblewoman and the first mistress of Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667. The daughter of a military governor, La Vallière joined the royal court in 1661 as maid of honour to Henrietta of England, Duchess of Orléans. She soon became a lover to King Louis XIV, who made her Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours in her own right. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise de La Vallière has received more than 884,719 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Louise de La Vallière is the 430th most popular writer (down from 387th in 2019), the 507th most popular biography from France (down from 443rd in 2019) and the 73rd most popular French Writer.

Louise de la Vallière was a mistress of Louis XIV, king of France. She was most famous for her love affair with the king, and for bearing him two children.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louise de La Vallière ranks 430 out of 5,755. Before her are Jami, Phaedrus, Louis Aragon, Vladimir Vysotsky, Bohumil Hrabal, and Ennius. After her are Constantine P. Cavafy, Louisa May Alcott, Traudl Junge, Yunus Emre, Tennessee Williams, and Patrick Modiano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1644, Louise de La Vallière ranks 5. Before her are Antonio Stradivari, Matsuo Bashō, Ole Rømer, and Henrietta of England. After her are Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, Jakob Ammann, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Louis-François de Boufflers, and Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha. Among people deceased in 1710, Louise de La Vallière ranks 2. Before her is Ole Rømer. After her are Emperor Higashiyama, Hennig Brand, Louis, Prince of Condé, Bernardo Pasquini, Gaspar Sanz, Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild, and Gottfried Kirch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louise de La Vallière ranks 507 out of 6,011. Before her are Giambologna (1529), Paul Barras (1755), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), Étienne de La Boétie (1530), Léon Blum (1872), and Louis Aragon (1897). After her are Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), Patrick Modiano (1945), Philippe Pinel (1745), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Joseph de Maistre (1753), and Annie Girardot (1931).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louise de La Vallière ranks 73. Before her are W. Somerset Maugham (1874), André Maurois (1885), Hector Malot (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), and Louis Aragon (1897). After her are Patrick Modiano (1945), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Ève Curie (1904), Anaïs Nin (1903), William of Rubruck (1220), and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627).

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