1763 - 1852
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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Among writers, Xavier de Maistre ranks 1,324 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1929 - 2021
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,318
1928 - 2005
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,319
1873 - 1934
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,320
1933 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,321
1936 - Present
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 1,322
1915 - 1979
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,323
1763 - 1852
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 1,324
1889 - 1966
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,325
1873 - 1929
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,326
1488 - 1575
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,327
1903 - 1967
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,328
1855 - 1898
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,329
1913 - 1994
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 1,330
Among people born in 1763, Xavier de Maistre ranks 13. Before 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 16. Before 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.
1763 - 1805
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 7
1763 - 1829
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 8
1763 - 1794
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 9
1763 - 1806
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 10
1763 - 1828
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 11
1763 - 1815
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 12
1763 - 1852
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 13
1763 - 1830
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 14
1763 - 1817
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 15
1763 - 1839
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 16
1763 - 1845
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 17
1763 - 1826
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 18
1763 - 1827
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 19
1778 - 1852
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 10
1799 - 1852
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 11
1790 - 1852
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 12
1783 - 1852
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 13
1793 - 1852
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 14
1817 - 1852
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 15
1763 - 1852
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 16
1779 - 1852
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 17
1767 - 1852
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 18
1795 - 1852
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 19
1800 - 1852
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 20
1817 - 1852
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 21
1790 - 1852
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 22
Among people born in France, Xavier de Maistre ranks 1,539 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1696 - 1788
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 1,533
1300 - 1291
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,534
1721 - 1774
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,535
1572 - 1632
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,536
1930 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,537
1737 - 1787
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,538
1763 - 1852
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 1,539
1849 - 1916
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,540
1820 - 1891
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,541
1698 - 1739
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 1,542
1892 - 1986
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 1,543
1070 - 1107
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 1,544
1657 - 1726
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 1,545
Among writers born in France, Xavier de Maistre ranks 192. Before 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).
1873 - 1914
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 186
1926 - 2016
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 187
1832 - 1873
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 188
1938 - 1997
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 189
1495 - 1544
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 190
1935 - 2003
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 191
1763 - 1852
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 192
1911 - 2003
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 193
1245 - 1288
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 194
1772 - 1843
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 195
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 196
1895 - 1972
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 197
1880 - 1906
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 198