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Marie Leszczyńska

1703 - 1768

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Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczyńska (Polish: [ˈmarja lɛʂˈt͡ʂɨj̃ska]; 23 June 1703 – 24 June 1768), also known as Marie Leczinska (French: [maʁi lɛɡzɛ̃ska]), was Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XV from their marriage on 4 September 1725 until her death in 1768. The daughter of Stanislaus I Leszczyński, the deposed King of Poland, and Catherine Opalińska, her 42-years and 9 months service was the longest of any queen in French history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Leszczyńska has received more than 1,520,147 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Marie Leszczyńska is the 21st most popular companion (up from 41st in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Poland (up from 34th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Companion.

Marie Leszczyńska was born in 1703 to Stanisław Leszczyński and Maria Kazimiera Sobieska. She was the Queen of France from 1725 to 1768. She is most famous for being the wife of Louis XV.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Marie Leszczyńska ranks 21 out of 784. Before her are Eva Braun, Nurbanu Sultan, Nefertari, Joseph Bonaparte, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Aspasia. After her are Bathsheba, Ankhesenamun, Jane Seymour, Livia, Roxana, and Queen Silvia of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Marie Leszczyńska ranks 2. Before her is Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. After her are François Boucher, John Wesley, Louis, Duke of Orléans, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jonathan Edwards, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Johann Gottlieb Graun, and Aleksei Chirikov. Among people deceased in 1768, Marie Leszczyńska ranks 1. After her are Canaletto, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Laurence Sterne, Nicola Porpora, Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Marie Leszczyńska ranks 17 out of 1,694. Before her are L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Günter Grass (1927), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Fritz Haber (1868), and Johann Gottfried Herder (1744). After her are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Wernher von Braun (1912), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Wisława Szymborska (1923), and Janusz Korczak (1878).

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Among COMPANIONS In Poland

Among companions born in Poland, Marie Leszczyńska ranks 1. After her are Maria Feodorovna (1759), Catherine Opalińska (1680), Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702), and Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1464).

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