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Agrippa d'Aubigné

1552 - 1630

Agrippa d'Aubigné

Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (French pronunciation: [teo.dɔʁ aɡʁipa dobiɲe], 8 February 1552 – 29 April 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, the English poet Keith Bosley called d'Aubigné "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agrippa d'Aubigné is the 1,267th most popular writer (up from 1,412th in 2019), the 1,445th most popular biography from France (up from 1,636th in 2019) and the 184th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Agrippa d'Aubigné ranks 1,267 out of 7,302. Before him are John Tzetzes, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Rodolphe Töpffer, Madame d'Aulnoy, Vittorio Alfieri, and Jan Kochanowski. After him are Eiji Yoshikawa, Vinicius de Moraes, Nikolaus Lenau, Gottfried Benn, Anton Praetorius, and Saint Gall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1552, Agrippa d'Aubigné ranks 12. Before him are Lavinia Fontana, Seonjo of Joseon, Hans von Aachen, Jost Bürgi, Edmund Spenser, and Petrus Plancius. After him are Henri, Prince of Condé, Pietro Cataldi, Dom Justo Takayama, Paolo Sarpi, Anna of Cleves, and Barbara Longhi. Among people deceased in 1630, Agrippa d'Aubigné ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Kepler, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Balbases, Fede Galizia, Henry Briggs, and Yuan Chonghuan. After him are Johann Schein, Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Gioachino Greco, Esaias van de Velde, Akile Hatun, and Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza.

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Lavinia Fontana
PAINTER
1552 - 1614
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 6
Seonjo of Joseon
POLITICIAN
1552 - 1608
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 7
Hans von Aachen
PAINTER
1552 - 1615
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 8
Jost Bürgi
MATHEMATICIAN
1552 - 1632
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 9
Edmund Spenser
WRITER
1552 - 1599
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 10
Petrus Plancius
ASTRONOMER
1552 - 1622
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 11
Agrippa d'Aubigné
WRITER
1552 - 1630
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 12
Henri, Prince of Condé
POLITICIAN
1552 - 1588
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 13
Pietro Cataldi
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1552 - 1626
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1552 - 1615
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Paolo Sarpi
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1552 - 1623
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Anna of Cleves
NOBLEMAN
1552 - 1632
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Rank: 17
Barbara Longhi
PAINTER
1552 - 1638
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 18

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Johannes Kepler
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1571 - 1630
HPI: 89.24
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Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
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WRITER
1552 - 1630
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Rank: 12
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POLITICIAN
1568 - 1630
HPI: 61.98
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Among people born in France, Agrippa d'Aubigné ranks 1,445 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Mauroy (1928), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Medardus (470), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), and Marguerite Perey (1909). After him are Bernard Hinault (1954), Oenomaus (-105), Jean-Claude Pascal (1927), Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (1767), François Pinault (1936), and Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311).

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