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Robert-François Damiens

1715 - 1757

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Robert-François Damiens (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa damjɛ̃]; surname also recorded as Damier; 9 January 1715 – 28 March 1757) was a French domestic servant whose attempted assassination of King Louis XV in 1757 culminated in his public execution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert-François Damiens has received more than 997,326 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Robert-François Damiens is the 76th most popular extremist (down from 51st in 2019), the 1,469th most popular biography from France (down from 1,073rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Extremist.

Robert-François Damiens was most famous for being the first person to be executed by drawing and quartering in France.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Robert-François Damiens ranks 76 out of 209Before him are Henry Lee Lucas, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Ma Barker, Richard Ramirez, Willi Herold, and James Earl Ray. After him are Carlo Gambino, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Oskar Gröning, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Johann Rattenhuber, and Armin Meiwes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Robert-François Damiens ranks 4Before him are Peter II of Russia, Claude Adrien Helvétius, and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern. After him are Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, William Watson, Dorothea Erxleben, Charles, Prince of Soubise, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Among people deceased in 1757, Robert-François Damiens ranks 9Before him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Maria Josepha of Austria, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Johann Stamitz, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, and Rosalba Carriera. After him are Siraj ud-Daulah, 7th Dalai Lama, David Hartley, Amursana, Edward Vernon, and Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Robert-François Damiens ranks 1,469 out of 6,011Before him are Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707), Philip, Duke of Orléans (1336), Sebastian Castellio (1515), Emmanuelle Béart (1963), Chris Marker (1921), and Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt (1773). After him are Charles Péguy (1873), Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517), Constance of Arles (974), Abbé Pierre (1912), Marcel Dupré (1886), and Alain Poher (1909).

Among EXTREMISTS In France

Among extremists born in France, Robert-François Damiens ranks 5Before him are Gilles de Rais (1405), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), and Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409). After him are Michel Fourniret (1942), Jacques Mesrine (1936), Édouard Vaillant (1840), and Zacarias Moussaoui (1968).