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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

1674 - 1762

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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (13 January 1674 – 17 June 1762) was a French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique (Crébillon the Tragic) to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Crébillon the Gay). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon has received more than 37,803 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon is the 2,411th most popular writer (up from 2,717th in 2019), the 2,669th most popular biography from France (up from 2,901st in 2019) and the 337th most popular French Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ranks 2,411 out of 7,302. Before him are Kate Millett, Charles Maturin, Vasile Alecsandri, Ahmad Shamlou, Eustache Deschamps, and Ki no Tsurayuki. After him are Antiochus Kantemir, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sotion, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Charlotte Buff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1674, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ranks 7. Before him are Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Ibrahim Muteferrika, Jethro Tull, Reinhard Keiser, and Jeremiah Clarke. After him are Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, Marie of Lorraine, Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Isaac Watts, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn. Among people deceased in 1762, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ranks 18. Before him are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jean Calas, Tobias Mayer, Françoise-Louise de Warens, Teimuraz II of Kakheti, and Dorothea Erxleben. After him are Stanisław Poniatowski, Francesco Manfredini, Francesco Loredan, Jan Frederik Gronovius, and George Anson, 1st Baron Anson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ranks 2,669 out of 6,770. Before him are Odo II, Count of Blois (983), Armand Trousseau (1801), André Hunebelle (1896), Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), and Eustache Deschamps (1346). After him are Jean-Yves Le Drian (1947), Joseph Caillaux (1863), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Emma Calvé (1858), Philibert Commerson (1727), and Julie Delpy (1969).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ranks 337. Before him are Pierre Souvestre (1874), Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), Émile Augier (1820), André Frossard (1915), Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952), and Eustache Deschamps (1346). After him are Paul Hazard (1878), Dominique Lapierre (1931), Philippe de Mornay (1549), Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732), Louise Colet (1810), and Claude Farrère (1876).

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