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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

1715 - 1747

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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

Among writers, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 1,415 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 5Before 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 10Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 1,620 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues ranks 204Before 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).