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Madame du Barry

1743 - 1793

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Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (28 August 1744 – 8 December 1793) was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason — particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution. She is also known as "Mademoiselle Vaubernier". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madame du Barry has received more than 3,220,841 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Madame du Barry is the 9th most popular companion (up from 36th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from France (up from 233rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Companion.

Madame du Barry was a mistress of Louis XV and became the most famous courtesan of the 18th century.

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Madame du Barry ranks 9 out of 784. Before her are Fatimah, Anne Boleyn, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Madame de Pompadour, Aisha, and Khadija bint Khuwaylid. After her are Mihrimah Sultan, Catherine de' Medici, Klara Hitler, Helena, Empress Joséphine, and Eva Braun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Madame du Barry ranks 3. Before her are Thomas Jefferson, and Antoine Lavoisier. After her are Jean-Paul Marat, Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Cagliostro, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Toussaint Louverture, and Nicolai Abildgaard. Among people deceased in 1793, Madame du Barry ranks 3. Before her are Marie Antoinette, and Louis XVI of France. After her are Jean-Paul Marat, Carlo Goldoni, Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Yolande de Polastron, Francesco Guardi, Madame Roland, and Jacques Pierre Brissot.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame du Barry ranks 80 out of 6,770. Before her are Maximilien Robespierre (1758), Jacques-Louis David (1748), William the Conqueror (1028), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Louis the Pious (778), and Henry III of France (1551). After her are Louis Braille (1809), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Louis XVII of France (1785), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Jacques Chirac (1932), and Louis IX of France (1214).

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Among COMPANIONS In France

Among companions born in France, Madame du Barry ranks 2. Before her are Madame de Pompadour (1721). After her are Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Désirée Clary (1777), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), Elisabeth of Valois (1545), Brigitte Macron (1953), Isabella of France (1295), Julie Clary (1771), Marie of Anjou (1404), and Emma of Normandy (985).

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