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Yolande de Polastron

1749 - 1793

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Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac (8 September 1749 – 9 December 1793) was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yolande de Polastron has received more than 774,037 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Yolande de Polastron is the 1,568th most popular politician (up from 1,769th in 2019), the 560th most popular biography from France (up from 621st in 2019) and the 132nd most popular French Politician.

Yolande de Polastron was the wife of King Louis XIV of France. She is most famous for her role in the Fronde, a series of civil wars in France in the 17th century.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yolande de Polastron ranks 1,568 out of 19,576. Before her are Öljaitü, Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, Mongkut, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Princess Isabella of Parma, and Richard von Weizsäcker. After her are Glycerius, Horst Köhler, Francis II Rákóczi, Taejo of Goryeo, Manuel Noriega, and Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Yolande de Polastron ranks 7. Before her are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Edward Jenner, Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, and Nicolas Appert. After her are Domenico Cimarosa, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Daniel Rutherford, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Among people deceased in 1793, Yolande de Polastron ranks 9. Before her are Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, Carlo Goldoni, Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday, and Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. After her are Francesco Guardi, Madame Roland, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Alexander Roslin, and Charles Bonnet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yolande de Polastron ranks 560 out of 6,770. Before her are Gustave Caillebotte (1848), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Maurice Utrillo (1883), Rashi (1040), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), and Suger (1080). After her are Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Philippe Pinel (1745), Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (1464), Auguste de Marmont (1774), Bernard Tapie (1943), and Louise Élisabeth of France (1727).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Yolande de Polastron ranks 132. Before her are Childebert I (497), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), Avitus (395), Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172), Theuderic I (485), and Lothair of France (941). After her are Bernard Tapie (1943), René of Anjou (1409), Alaric II (458), Paul Bocuse (1926), Francis, Duke of Guise (1519), and Margaret of Anjou (1430).

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