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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

1636 - 1711

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (French: [nikɔla bwalo depʁeo]; 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau (UK: , US: ), was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux has received more than 201,929 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux is the 459th most popular writer (down from 436th in 2019), the 541st most popular biography from France (down from 499th in 2019) and the 80th most popular French Writer.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux is most famous for his poem "The Art of Poetry," which was published in 1674.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 459 out of 5,755Before him are Athenaeus, Anaïs Nin, Salman Rushdie, Frances Hodgson Burnett, William of Rubruck, and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. After him are Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Vasily Grossman, Wu Cheng'en, Enheduanna, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Henry IV of Castile.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1636, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 1After him are Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Laura Mancini, Adriaen van de Velde, Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Edward Colston, Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Nikolai Spathari, and Charles de La Fosse. Among people deceased in 1711, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 3Before him are Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and Louis, Grand Dauphin. After him are John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Frederick William, Duke of Courland, Louis-François de Boufflers, Maria Amalia of Courland, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Vladimir Atlasov, Joseph Vaz, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, and Eusebio Kino.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 541 out of 6,011Before him are William of Rubruck (1220), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Rashi (1040), William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071), Joseph Black (1728), and Charles II of Navarre (1332). After him are Avitus (395), Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), René of Anjou (1409), Carus (230), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), and Elisa Bonaparte (1777).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 80Before him are Patrick Modiano (1945), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Ève Curie (1904), Anaïs Nin (1903), William of Rubruck (1220), and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627). After him are René Guénon (1886), Jacques Hébert (1757), Boris Vian (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), Gaston Leroux (1868), and Alfred de Musset (1810).