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Jacques Clément

1567 - 1589

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Jacques Clément (1567 – 1 August 1589) was a French conspirator and the regicide of King Henry III. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Clément is the 1,048th most popular writer (down from 920th in 2019), the 1,218th most popular biography from France (down from 1,038th in 2019) and the 156th most popular French Writer.

Jacques Clément was a Dominican priest who assassinated King Henry III of France in 1589.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques Clément ranks 1,048 out of 7,302Before him are Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Persius, Bertran de Born, Mary Higgins Clark, James Hadley Chase, and John Dryden. After him are Alfred de Vigny, Marko Marulić, Johannes Tauler, Charles Nodier, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Ernst Toller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1567, Jacques Clément ranks 10Before him are Samuel de Champlain, Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, Date Masamune, Willem Schouten, Eleanor de' Medici, and Sanada Yukimura. After him are Honoré d'Urfé, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Jacob van Heemskerck, Archduchess Margaret of Austria, John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and Arima Harunobu. Among people deceased in 1589, Jacques Clément ranks 5Before him are Catherine de' Medici, Henry III of France, Alessandro Farnese, and Christophe Plantin. After him are Benedict the Moor, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, Johannes Sturm, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Bernard Palissy, Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Michael Baius.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Clément ranks 1,218 out of 6,770Before him are Anne de Montmorency (1493), Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1785), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756), Albert Marquet (1875), and Nicolas Chauvin (1790). After him are Alfred de Vigny (1797), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Johannes Tauler (1300), Isabella of Valois (1389), Charles Nodier (1780), and Jules de Polignac (1780).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques Clément ranks 156Before him are Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Paulinus of Nola (354), Raymond Radiguet (1903), and Bertran de Born (1140). After him are Alfred de Vigny (1797), Johannes Tauler (1300), Charles Nodier (1780), Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737), Gottfried von Strassburg (1180), and Paul Bourget (1852).