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Antoine François Prévost

1697 - 1763

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Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (UK: PRAY-voh deg-ZEEL, US: pray-VOH -⁠, French: [ɑ̃twan fʁɑ̃swa pʁevo dɛɡzil]; 1 April 1697 – 25 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine François Prévost is the 593rd most popular writer (up from 1,144th in 2019), the 707th most popular biography from France (up from 1,306th in 2019) and the 99th most popular French Writer.

Antoine François Prévost is most famous for his novel Manon Lescaut.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antoine François Prévost ranks 593 out of 7,302. Before him are Khaled al-Asaad, Bohumil Hrabal, Gérard de Nerval, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Georges Perec. After him are Denis of Portugal, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Su Shi, Robert Burns, Bell hooks, and Gustav Meyrink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1697, Antoine François Prévost ranks 4. Before him are Canaletto, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, and William Hogarth. After him are Johann Joachim Quantz, Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, Jean-Marie Leclair, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Faustina Bordoni, Nicola Salvi, and Mahmud Hotak. Among people deceased in 1763, Antoine François Prévost ranks 3. Before him are Augustus III of Poland, and Princess Isabella of Parma. After him are Cao Xueqin, Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Pierre de Marivaux, Peter Forsskål, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine François Prévost ranks 707 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Suzanne Lenglen (1899), Pierre Augereau (1757), Georges Perec (1936), Clotilde (475), and Elisa Bonaparte (1777). After him are Nicole Oresme (1323), Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651), Louis I, Duke of Anjou (1339), François Fénelon (1651), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), and Alfred de Musset (1810).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antoine François Prévost ranks 99. Before him are Frontinus (30), Alfred Jarry (1873), Adam de la Halle (1245), Gaston Leroux (1868), Gérard de Nerval (1808), and Georges Perec (1936). After him are Alfred de Musset (1810), Ausonius (310), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Louise de La Vallière (1644), and Raymond Queneau (1903).

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