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Antoine Furetière

1619 - 1688

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Antoine Furetière (28 December 1619 – 14 May 1688) was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel Scarron's City Romance, and also his famous Dictionnaire universel . He was expelled from the Académie Française for seeking to publish his own French language dictionary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Furetière is the 3,330th most popular writer (up from 4,198th in 2019), the 3,422nd most popular biography from France (up from 4,011th in 2019) and the 430th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Antoine Furetière ranks 3,330 out of 7,302. Before him are Christopher Robin Milne, Butrus al-Bustani, Alan Sillitoe, August Šenoa, Sohrab Sepehri, and Salomėja Nėris. After him are Robert M. Pirsig, Horace McCoy, Monteiro Lobato, Louis Pergaud, Charles Lamb, and Ango Sakaguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1619, Antoine Furetière ranks 21. Before him are Wang Fuzhi, Henry Oldenburg, Jacob Stainer, Matthias Weckmann, Johann Rosenmüller, and Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz. After him are Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Otto Marseus van Schrieck, and Marcantonio Giustinian. Among people deceased in 1688, Antoine Furetière ranks 15. Before him are Philip de Koninck, Constantine Phaulkon, Philippe Quinault, Abraham Duquesne, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, and François Bernier. After him are Marcantonio Giustinian, Bohuslav Balbín, Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow, and Ralph Cudworth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Furetière ranks 3,422 out of 6,770. Before him are Albert Batteux (1919), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (1282), Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Jacques Labillardière (1755), and Gustave Le Gray (1820). After him are Roland Dumas (1922), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Louis Pergaud (1882), Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), François Marius Granet (1775), and Jeanne Demessieux (1921).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antoine Furetière ranks 430. Before him are Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707), Rutebeuf (1300), Juliette Adam (1836), Armand Salacrou (1899), Jacques Delille (1738), and Léon-Paul Fargue (1876). After him are Louis Pergaud (1882), Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877), Pierre Benoit (1886), Jean Effel (1908), Daniel Guérin (1904), and Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920).

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