RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Claude Fleury

1640 - 1723

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Claude Fleury (6 December 1640, Paris – 14 July 1723, Paris), was a French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian. Destined for the bar, he was educated at the elite, Jesuit College de Clermont (now that of Louis-le-Grand) in Paris. In 1658 he was accepted as an attorney to the parlement of Paris, and for nine years practiced law. There he caught the attention of preacher at the royal court, Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, who persuaded him to study theology and receive holy orders. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Fleury is the 2,493rd most popular religious figure (down from 2,209th in 2019), the 3,878th most popular biography from France (down from 3,672nd in 2019) and the 201st most popular French Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Claude Fleury ranks 2,493 out of 3,187. Before him are Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, Paolo Sardi, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Andrew Bell, Daniel Sturla, and Anastasius of Constantinople. After him are Lorenzo Antonetti, José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Marguerite Bays, Hossein Wahid Khorasani, and Alexandru Todea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Claude Fleury ranks 22. Before him are Mariana Alcoforado, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Willem de Vlamingh, Georg Mohr, Gerard de Lairesse, and Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester. After him are Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, John Mayow, and William Wycherley. Among people deceased in 1723, Claude Fleury ranks 17. Before him are Guillaume Dubois, Antonio Maria Valsalva, Praskovia Saltykova, Mariana Alcoforado, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, and Johann Christian Günther. After him is Jan Santini Aichel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Fleury ranks 3,878 out of 6,770. Before him are Magda Julin (1894), Coline Serreau (1947), Jules Bianchi (1989), Pierre Sinibaldi (1924), Gabriel Chevallier (1895), and Herman Georges Berger (1875). After him are Rachida Dati (1965), André Chéron (1895), Hortense Schneider (1833), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), André Auffray (1884), and Marcel Brillouin (1854).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Claude Fleury ranks 201. Before him are Peter of Bruys (1095), Emmanuel Célestin Suhard (1874), Jean de Brébeuf (1593), Marie of the Incarnation (1599), François Marty (1904), and François de Laval (1623). After him are Jeanne Jugan (1792), Amalberga of Maubeuge (601), Alfred Des Cloizeaux (1817), Michel Aupetit (1951), Philibert of Jumièges (608), and Jean-Louis Bruguès (1943).

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