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Xavier de Maistre

1763 - 1852

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Xavier de Maistre (French pronunciation: [ɡzavje də mɛstʁ]; 10 October 1763 – 12 June 1852) of Savoy (then part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia) lived largely as a military man but is known as a French writer. The younger brother of Joseph de Maistre, a noted philosopher and counter-revolutionary, Xavier was born to an aristocratic family at Chambéry in October 1763. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Xavier de Maistre has received more than 102,864 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Xavier de Maistre is the 1,324th most popular writer (down from 1,181st in 2019), the 1,539th most popular biography from France (down from 1,328th in 2019) and the 192nd most popular French Writer.

Xavier de Maistre is most famous for his book "Letters on the Russian Empire."

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.83

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  • 1.49

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Xavier de Maistre ranks 1,324 out of 5,755Before him are Kjell Askildsen, Robert Sheckley, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Cees Nooteboom, Don DeLillo, and Konstantin Simonov. After him are Siegfried Kracauer, Liang Qichao, Joseph Karo, Vladimir Bartol, Georges Rodenbach, and Nicolás Gómez Dávila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Xavier de Maistre ranks 13Before him are Claude Chappe, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Augustin Robespierre, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Kobayashi Issa, and Guillaume Brune. After him are Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden, Étienne Méhul, Joseph Fesch, Simon Mayr, Franz Danzi, and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Among people deceased in 1852, Xavier de Maistre ranks 16Before him are Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Karl Bryullov, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, Vasily Zhukovsky, Ján Kollár, and Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg. After him are Thomas Moore, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Hadji Murad, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, Táhirih, and Gideon Mantell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Xavier de Maistre ranks 1,539 out of 6,011Before him are Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696), Guillaume de Beaujeu (1300), Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721), Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (1572), Barbara (1930), and Louise of France (1737). After him are Joseph Gallieni (1849), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Marcel Dassault (1892), Raymond of Burgundy (1070), and Michel Richard Delalande (1657).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Xavier de Maistre ranks 192Before him are Charles Péguy (1873), Michel Butor (1926), Émile Gaboriau (1832), Roland Topor (1938), Clément Marot (1495), and Monique Wittig (1935). After him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), Adam de la Halle (1245), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), Tomi Ungerer (1931), Henry de Montherlant (1895), and Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880).