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Alexandre Exquemelin

1646 - 1707

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Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch, or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Exquemelin is the 2,375th most popular writer (down from 2,202nd in 2019), the 2,623rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,465th in 2019) and the 325th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Alexandre Exquemelin ranks 2,375 out of 7,302. Before him are Ana Blandiana, Henri Meilhac, Sister Nivedita, Asadi Tusi, Silva Kaputikyan, and Annie Proulx. After him are Michel de Ghelderode, Xenophon of Ephesus, Heinrich Glarean, Petrus Comestor, Paul Féval, père, and Catherine Breillat.

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Among people born in 1646, Alexandre Exquemelin ranks 13. Before him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Godfrey Kneller, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, and Charles Plumier. After him are Paul Hermann, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, Glückel of Hameln, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, and Johann Theile. Among people deceased in 1707, Alexandre Exquemelin ranks 15. Before him are Jean Mabillon, Christoph Cellarius, Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Willem van de Velde the Younger, Johann Patkul, and Johann Christoph Denner. After him are Petter Dass, Jeremiah Clarke, Julie d'Aubigny, Adriaen Coorte, Zheng Keshuang, and Dositheus II of Jerusalem.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Exquemelin ranks 2,623 out of 6,770. Before him are Yvonne de Gaulle (1900), Charles, Prince of Soubise (1715), Henri Meilhac (1831), Blanche of Artois (1248), Jean Dieudonné (1906), and Christian Kramp (1760). After him are Constance, Duchess of Brittany (1161), Antoine Pesne (1683), Petrus Comestor (1100), Paul Féval, père (1816), Michel Sogny (1947), and Catherine Breillat (1948).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alexandre Exquemelin ranks 325. Before him are Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682), Étienne Dolet (1509), Walter of Châtillon (1135), Paul Du Chaillu (1835), Hervé Bazin (1911), and Henri Meilhac (1831). After him are Petrus Comestor (1100), Paul Féval, père (1816), Catherine Breillat (1948), André Frossard (1915), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886), and Paul Adam (1862).

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