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Charles de Brosses

1709 - 1777

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Charles de Brosses (French: [də bʁɔs]), comte de Tournay, baron de Montfalcon, seigneur de Vezins et de Prevessin (7 February 1709 – 7 May 1777), was a French scholar of the 18th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles de Brosses is the 1,957th most popular writer (up from 2,155th in 2019), the 2,239th most popular biography from France (up from 2,406th in 2019) and the 275th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles de Brosses ranks 1,957 out of 7,302. Before him are Anagarika Dharmapala, David Morrell, Almeida Garrett, James Murray, José Zorrilla, and Felice Orsini. After him are Leopoldo Alas, Fred Vargas, Thomas Kyd, Theophylact of Ohrid, Basil Valentine, and James Herriot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Charles de Brosses ranks 15. Before him are Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Johann Georg Gmelin, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Tokugawa Ietsugu, and Franz Xaver Richter. After him are Étienne de Silhouette, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Alexei Razumovsky, John Cleland, and Antonio Rinaldi. Among people deceased in 1777, Charles de Brosses ranks 7. Before him are Johann Heinrich Lambert, Joseph I of Portugal, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Albrecht von Haller, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben. After him are Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Johann Andreas Segner, Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria, Charles-Joseph Natoire, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Maxim Berezovsky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles de Brosses ranks 2,239 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Polnareff (1944), Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877), Princess Isabelle of Orléans (1878), Alizée (1984), Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (1641), and Philippe Troussier (1955). After him are Louis Anquetin (1861), Fred Vargas (1957), Théo Sarapo (1936), Amédée Ozenfant (1886), Robert Estienne (1503), and Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (1648).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Charles de Brosses ranks 275. Before him are Zygmunt Krasiński (1812), Christian Jacq (1947), Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808), Eustache Deschamps (1346), Jean Paulhan (1884), and Emmanuel Carrère (1957). After him are Fred Vargas (1957), Avitus of Vienne (450), Éric Zemmour (1958), Jean Bruller (1902), Savitri Devi (1905), and Augustin Barruel (1741).

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