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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 36,857 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vincent Voiture is the 2,996th most popular writer (down from 2,950th in 2019), the 3,088th most popular biography from France (down from 2,934th in 2019) and the 383rd most popular French Writer.

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  • 51.65

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vincent Voiture ranks 2,996 out of 5,755Before him are Ella Maillart, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Ernst Wiechert, Rabia Balkhi, Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, and Francisco de Sá de Miranda. After him are Nick Hornby, Augusto Monterroso, Lars Norén, Yang Jiang, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, and Felix Timmermans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1597, Vincent Voiture ranks 14Before him are François Duquesnoy, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, John Francis Regis, Salomon de Bray, and Justus Sustermans. After him are Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Jan van Bijlert. Among people deceased in 1648, Vincent Voiture ranks 10Before him are Marin Mersenne, Tirso de Molina, Claudia de' Medici, Joseph Calasanz, George I Rákóczi, and Claude Françoise de Lorraine. After him are Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Caspar Barlaeus, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, and Juan Gómez de Mora.

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In France

Among people born in France, Vincent Voiture ranks 3,088 out of 6,011Before him are Marguerite Durand (1864), Nicolas Lemery (1645), Patachou (1918), Paul Poupard (1930), Claude Pinoteau (1925), and Sheila (1945). After him are Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Prosper Guéranger (1805), Didier Six (1954), Henri Vidal (1919), Gérard Jugnot (1951), and Charles Blanc (1813).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Vincent Voiture ranks 383Before him are Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Catulle Mendès (1841), Bernard Werber (1961), Henri Meilhac (1831), Jean-François Regnard (1655), and Daniel Guérin (1904). After him are Charles Blanc (1813), Eugène Burnouf (1801), Pascal Quignard (1948), Judith Gautier (1845), Victor Segalen (1878), and Marcel Prévost (1862).