WRITER

Isabelle de Charrière

1740 - 1805

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Isabelle de Charrière (French: [izabɛl də ʃaʁjɛʁ]; née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken; 20 October 1740 – 27 December 1805), also known as Madame de Charrière and in the Netherlands as Belle van Zuylen (Dutch: [ˈbɛlə vɑn ˈzœylə(n)]), was a Dutch and Swiss writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Colombier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She is now best known for her letters and novels, although she also wrote pamphlets, music and plays. She took a keen interest in the society and politics of her age, and her work around the time of the French Revolution is regarded as being of particular interest. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isabelle de Charrière is the 426th most popular writer (up from 660th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 95th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Writer.

Isabelle de Charrière is most famous for her 1782 novel, "Letters of a Peruvian Woman," which was one of the first novels written in French by a woman.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 426 out of 7,302. Before her are Paula Hitler, Ennius, John Galsworthy, Propertius, Ian Fleming, and Attar of Nishapur. After her are Saint-John Perse, Jacques Prévert, William of Rubruck, Phillis Wheatley, Einhard, and Ágota Kristóf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 3. Before her are Marquis de Sade, and Ivan VI of Russia. After her are Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Carl Michael Bellman, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Among people deceased in 1805, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 4. Before her are Friedrich Schiller, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and Luigi Boccherini. After her are Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Claude Chappe, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 52 out of 1,646. Before her are James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649), William II of the Netherlands (1792), Jan Steen (1626), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Max Euwe (1901), and Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907). After her are Ruud Gullit (1962), Frits Zernike (1888), Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Tobias Asser (1838), Thomas Bernhard (1931), and Paul Verhoeven (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Isabelle de Charrière ranks 1. After her are Thomas Bernhard (1931), Multatuli (1820), Harry Mulisch (1927), Etty Hillesum (1914), Robert van Gulik (1910), Constantijn Huygens (1596), Cees Nooteboom (1933), Dick Bruna (1927), Isaac Titsingh (1745), Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), and Cornelis Tromp (1629).

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