1715 - 1747
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French: [vovnaʁɡ]; 6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747) was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797, and from 1857 on, his aphorisms became popular. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues has received more than 83,716 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues is the 1,415th most popular writer (down from 1,359th in 2019), the 1,620th most popular biography from France (down from 1,505th in 2019) and the 204th most popular French Writer.
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Among writers, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 1,415 out of 5,755. Before him are Thoinot Arbeau, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Aharon Appelfeld, Qiu Jin, and Louise Labé. After him are Béla Balázs, Mukhtar Auezov, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Robert Browning, Siegfried Lenz, and Joseph Needham.
1520 - 1595
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 1,409
1808 - 1889
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,410
1552 - 1630
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,411
1932 - 2018
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,412
1875 - 1907
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,413
1524 - 1566
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,414
1715 - 1747
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,415
1884 - 1949
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 1,416
1897 - 1961
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 1,417
1888 - 1970
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,418
1812 - 1889
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,419
1926 - 2014
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,420
1900 - 1995
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,421
Among people born in 1715, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 5. Before him are Peter II of Russia, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, and Robert-François Damiens. After him are Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, William Watson, Dorothea Erxleben, Charles, Prince of Soubise, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Among people deceased in 1747, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 10. Before him are Catherine Opalińska, Amaro Pargo, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Giovanni Bononcini, and Giuseppe Crespi. After him are Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Francesco Solimena, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Jean-Féry Rebel.
1715 - 1730
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 1
1715 - 1771
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 2
1715 - 1797
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 3
1715 - 1757
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 4
1715 - 1747
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 5
1715 - 1739
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 6
1715 - 1777
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 7
1715 - 1789
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 8
1715 - 1787
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 9
1715 - 1762
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 10
1715 - 1787
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 11
1715 - 1769
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 12
1680 - 1747
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 4
1678 - 1747
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 5
1690 - 1747
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 6
1671 - 1747
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 7
1670 - 1747
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 8
1665 - 1747
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 9
1715 - 1747
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 10
1676 - 1747
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 11
1676 - 1747
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 12
1657 - 1747
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 13
1675 - 1747
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 14
1678 - 1747
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 15
1666 - 1747
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 16
Among people born in France, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 1,620 out of 6,011. Before him are Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1612), Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926), Pierre Balmain (1914), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), and Louise Labé (1524). After him are Germain of Paris (496), Marie Thérèse of France (1667), Guillaume Budé (1467), Peter Faber (1506), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), and Yves Congar (1904).
1552 - 1630
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,614
1612 - 1648
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,615
1926 - 2007
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,616
1914 - 1982
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,617
1689 - 1755
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 1,618
1524 - 1566
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,619
1715 - 1747
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,620
496 - 576
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,621
1667 - 1672
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,622
1467 - 1540
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,623
1506 - 1545
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 1,624
1946 - 2022
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,625
1904 - 1995
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,626
Among writers born in France, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 204. Before him are Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880), Philippe Soupault (1897), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), and Louise Labé (1524). After him are Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Léo Taxil (1854), Maurice Barrès (1862), Georges Feydeau (1862), Fulcher of Chartres (1059), and Jean Chapelain (1595).
1880 - 1906
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 198
1897 - 1990
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 199
1520 - 1595
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 200
1808 - 1889
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 201
1552 - 1630
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 202
1524 - 1566
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 203
1715 - 1747
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 204
1523 - 1596
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 205
1854 - 1907
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 206
1862 - 1923
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 207
1862 - 1921
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 208
1059 - 1127
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 209
1595 - 1674
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 210