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Ninon de l'Enclos

1620 - 1705

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Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos, also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos (10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705), was a French author, courtesan and patron of the arts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ninon de l'Enclos has received more than 345,386 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ninon de l'Enclos is the 577th most popular writer (up from 687th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from France (up from 800th in 2019) and the 101st most popular French Writer.

Ninon de l'enclos is most famous for being a French courtesan in the 1600s. She was known for her intelligence and wit, as well as her beauty.

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  • 350k

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  • 65.76

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lettres de Ninon de Lenclos Au Marquis de Sévigné.
2019
Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
2006
Lettres de Ninon de Lenclos
Biographies, Histoire, Noblesse
1920
The story of Ninon de l'Enclos
1843
Correspondance authentique de Ninon de Lenclos
1886
Briefe der Ninon de Lenclos
1870

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ninon de l'Enclos ranks 577 out of 7,302. Before her are Gaius Julius Hyginus, Jaroslav Seifert, Laurence Sterne, Denis of Portugal, Sayat-Nova, and James Baldwin. After her are Władysław Reymont, Cassiodorus, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Osip Mandelstam, Enid Blyton, and Abai Qunanbaiuly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Ninon de l'Enclos ranks 2. Before her is Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg. After her are Edme Mariotte, Avvakum, Aelbert Cuyp, Pierre Puget, Jean Picard, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, John Graunt, and François Bernier. Among people deceased in 1705, Ninon de l'Enclos ranks 4. Before her are Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Jacob Bernoulli, and Emeric Thököly. After her are Luca Giordano, Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Catherine of Braganza, John Ray, Philipp Spener, Madame d'Aulnoy, Pierre Beauchamp, and George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ninon de l'Enclos ranks 678 out of 6,770. Before her are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Pope Stephen IX (1020), Jean Jaurès (1859), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676). After her are Paul Broca (1824), Paul Dukas (1865), Vincent Auriol (1884), Louis Néel (1904), Gabriel Tarde (1843), and Alexandre Cabanel (1823).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Ninon de l'Enclos ranks 101. Before her are Paul Claudel (1868), Gaston Leroux (1868), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Georges Perec (1936), and Ausonius (310). After her are Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Madame de La Fayette (1634), Pierre Loti (1850), Madame Roland (1754), Raymond Queneau (1903), and Eugène Sue (1804).

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