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Claudine Guérin de Tencin

1682 - 1749

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Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (27 April 1682 – 4 December 1749) was a French salonist and author. She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who later became a prominent mathematician, philosophe and contributor to the Encyclopédie, though she left him on the steps of the Church of Saint-Jean-le-Rond on the north side of Notre Dame cathedral a few days after his birth in November 1717. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claudine Guérin de Tencin is the 2,272nd most popular writer (up from 2,304th in 2019), the 2,542nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,582nd in 2019) and the 319th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Claudine Guérin de Tencin ranks 2,272 out of 7,302Before her are Horacio Quiroga, Colin Wilson, Erin Hunter, Janus Pannonius, Matthew Arnold, and Edward FitzGerald. After her are Bo Carpelan, Paul the Silentiary, Étienne Dolet, Thomas Gray, Fujiwara no Teika, and James Herbert Brennan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Claudine Guérin de Tencin ranks 11Before her are Johann Friedrich Böttger, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Şehsuvar Sultan, Shahu I, and William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. After her are Jacopo Amigoni, Roger Cotes, Jean-François Dandrieu, Jan van Huysum, Johann Jacob Bach, and Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1749, Claudine Guérin de Tencin ranks 7Before her are Émilie du Châtelet, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Alessandro Magnasco, Shahu I, and Adel Shah. After her are Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Jan van Huysum, William Jones, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Matthias Bel, and Jan Frans van Bloemen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claudine Guérin de Tencin ranks 2,542 out of 6,770Before her are Antoine Pinay (1891), Jacques Mesrine (1936), Daniel Gélin (1921), Sébastien Érard (1752), Pierre Pflimlin (1907), and Philip of Milly (1120). After her are Roman Opałka (1931), Nicolas Chopin (1771), Eugène Schueller (1881), Étienne Dolet (1509), Henri Pescarolo (1942), and Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence (1114).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Claudine Guérin de Tencin ranks 319Before her are Pierre Gamarra (1919), Matthieu Ricard (1946), Claude Farrère (1876), Pierre Klossowski (1905), Ludovic Halévy (1834), and Benjamin Péret (1899). After her are Étienne Dolet (1509), Walter of Châtillon (1135), Paul Du Chaillu (1835), Hervé Bazin (1911), Henri Meilhac (1831), and Alexandre Exquemelin (1646).