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Bernard Palissy

1510 - 1589

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Bernard Palissy (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ palisi]; c. 1510 – c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rusticware", typically highly decorated large oval platters featuring small animals in relief among vegetation, the animals apparently often being moulded from casts taken of dead specimens. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Palissy is the 2,172nd most popular writer (down from 1,945th in 2019), the 2,438th most popular biography from France (down from 2,203rd in 2019) and the 305th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Bernard Palissy ranks 2,172 out of 7,302. Before him are Roger Peyrefitte, Per Wahlöö, Antonine Maillet, Dexippus, Philippe Sollers, and Brian Aldiss. After him are Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Aleksander Chodźko, Yuan Mei, Judith Kerr, Cesare Zavattini, and Asclepiades of Samos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Bernard Palissy ranks 22. Before him are Antonio de Cabezón, Roy Mata, Jean Goujon, Francesco de' Rossi, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, and Guillaume Postel. After him are Margaret Paleologa, Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Alonso Mudarra, Andrea Schiavone, Diego Ortiz, and Bonaventure des Périers. Among people deceased in 1589, Bernard Palissy ranks 10. Before him are Christophe Plantin, Jacques Clément, Benedict the Moor, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Johannes Sturm, and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. After him are Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Michael Baius, Charles II, Lord of Monaco, Heo Nanseolheon, Marcin Kromer, and Jurij Dalmatin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Palissy ranks 2,438 out of 6,770. Before him are Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (1015), Germanus of Auxerre (378), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Albert, 4th duc de Broglie (1821), Philippe Sollers (1936), and Raymonde de Laroche (1882). After him are Henry Darcy (1803), Aldegonde (639), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Yann Tiersen (1970), Marie Bracquemond (1840), and Isabelle Aubret (1938).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Bernard Palissy ranks 305. Before him are Paul Hazard (1878), Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704), Étienne Jodelle (1532), Yvan Goll (1891), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), and Philippe Sollers (1936). After him are Pierre Lemaitre (1951), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Bernardus Silvestris (1085), Michel Leiris (1901), and Elena Poniatowska (1932).

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