PHILOSOPHER

Clémence Royer

1830 - 1902

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Clémence Royer (21 April 1830 – 6 February 1902) was a self-taught French scholar who lectured and wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism. She is best known for her controversial 1862 French translation of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clémence Royer is the 1,090th most popular philosopher (up from 1,109th in 2019), the 4,205th most popular biography from France (up from 4,280th in 2019) and the 131st most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Clémence Royer ranks 1,090 out of 1,267. Before her are Carlo Cattaneo, Luciano Floridi, Max Dessoir, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Karl Ludwig von Haller, and Julián Marías. After her are Theodor Benfey, Cleopatra the Alchemist, John Scott Haldane, Eugenio Garin, Alexander Men, and Jean Cavaillès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Clémence Royer ranks 60. Before her are Daniel Oliver, Jhalkaribai, Gustav Lange, John Douglas, John Moresby, and Karl Klindworth. After her are James G. Blaine, Henry Peach Robinson, Peter Arnold Heise, Juan Manuel Blanes, Charles Wyville Thomson, and Viktor Madarász. Among people deceased in 1902, Clémence Royer ranks 60. Before her are Andrejs Pumpurs, Bret Harte, Gleb Uspensky, Saigō Jūdō, John Wesley Powell, and Lőrinc Schlauch. After her are Ludwig von Brenner, Almon Brown Strowger, Infanta María Cristina of Spain, Jimmy Ross, Princess Marie of Nassau, and Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.

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In France

Among people born in France, Clémence Royer ranks 4,205 out of 6,770. Before her are Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), Michel Subor (1935), Virginie Despentes (1969), Henri Deloge (1874), Jean-Claude Andruet (1940), and Annette Messager (1943). After her are Albert Capellani (1874), Édouard Spach (1801), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), Jean Guillou (1930), Jean Cugnot (1899), and Mady Mesplé (1931).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Clémence Royer ranks 131. Before her are Anselm of Laon (1050), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940), Rémi Brague (1947), Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716), Michel Onfray (1959), and Samuel ibn Tibbon (1150). After her are Jean Cavaillès (1903), Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618), Lucien Sève (1926), Max Bense (1910), André Comte-Sponville (1952), and Barbara Cassin (1947).

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