WRITER

Vincent Voiture

1597 - 1648

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Vincent Voiture (24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648), French Mannerist and Baroque Précieuses poet and writer of prose, was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions. Although a follower of the Duke of Orléans, he won the favour of Cardinal Richelieu, and was one of the earliest members of the Académie française. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent Voiture has received more than 39,380 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Vincent Voiture is the 3,007th most popular writer (down from 2,985th in 2019), the 3,160th most popular biography from France (down from 3,077th in 2019) and the 396th most popular French Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.12

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  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lettres choisies de M. de Voiture
2001
Les oeuvres de Monsieur de Voiture
1660
Lettres [et poésies]
1660
Oeuvres, lettres et poésies
1855
Voiture
Accessible book
1910

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vincent Voiture ranks 3,007 out of 7,302. Before him are Richard Dehmel, Lytton Strachey, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Roy Medvedev, Gasparo Contarini, and Maithili Sharan Gupt. After him are Lars Norén, Nathan Alterman, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Caroline Graham, Anšlavs Eglītis, and Thomas of Britain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1597, Vincent Voiture ranks 16. Before him are Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Justus Sustermans, Johann Liss, Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, Salomon de Bray, and Cornelis Schut. After him are Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Theodoor Rombouts, John Francis Regis, Athanasius III of Constantinople, and Jan van Bijlert. Among people deceased in 1648, Vincent Voiture ranks 11. Before him are Tirso de Molina, Joseph Calasanz, George I Rákóczi, Claudia de' Medici, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, and Qin Liangyu. After him are Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Caspar Barlaeus, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Juan Gómez de Mora.

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In France

Among people born in France, Vincent Voiture ranks 3,160 out of 6,770. Before him are François de La Rocque (1885), Élisabeth de Bourbon (1614), Wojciech Kossak (1856), Maxime Rodinson (1915), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), and Ernest Monis (1846). After him are Inès de La Fressange (1957), Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux (1753), William of Conches (1080), Pierre Robert Olivétan (1505), Sebastianus (400), and François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Vincent Voiture ranks 396. Before him are Hervé Bazin (1911), Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770), Jean Echenoz (1947), Louise Weiss (1893), Auguste Barbier (1805), and Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697). After him are Thomas of Britain (1200), Michel Ocelot (1943), Henri Meilhac (1831), Charles Blanc (1813), Joseph Joffo (1931), and Jean Astruc (1684).

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