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Jean-François Regnard

1655 - 1709

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Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709), "the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century", was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681. Regnard inherited a fortune from his father, a successful merchant who had given him an excellent classical education; he then increased it, he affirms, by gambling. He took to traveling, and on a return voyage from Italy in 1678 was at the age of twenty-two captured by an Algerian pirate, sold as a slave in Algiers and taken to Constantinople, where the French consul paid ransom for his release. He went on traveling, undaunted. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-François Regnard is the 2,476th most popular writer (up from 3,398th in 2019), the 2,715th most popular biography from France (up from 3,488th in 2019) and the 342nd most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Jean-François Regnard ranks 2,476 out of 7,302. Before him are Karel Hynek Mácha, Charles Mackay, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Konstantin Balmont, Atsushi Nakajima, and Rolf Hochhuth. After him are Ivan Yefremov, Sergey Aksakov, C. W. Ceram, Predrag Matvejević, Vonda N. McIntyre, and Albert Robida.

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Among people born in 1655, Jean-François Regnard ranks 10. Before him are Charles XI of Sweden, Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Christian Thomasius, Zumbi, Rinaldo d'Este, and Johann Christoph Denner. After him are Ferdinand Kettler, Bernard de Montfaucon, Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Christoph Dientzenhofer, Antonio Palomino, and Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Among people deceased in 1709, Jean-François Regnard ranks 13. Before him are François Louis, Prince of Conti, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, François de la Chaise, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, and Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano. After him are Abraham a Sancta Clara, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Alvise II Mocenigo, George Rooke, Thomas Corneille, and Dimitry of Rostov.

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Among people born in France, Jean-François Regnard ranks 2,715 out of 6,770. Before him are Philibert Commerson (1727), Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955), Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), and Theobald III, Count of Blois (1019). After him are André Thevet (1516), Lupus of Troyes (395), Claude Cahun (1894), Guy Ligier (1930), Jean Rapp (1771), and Henri Labrouste (1801).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-François Regnard ranks 342. Before him are Marius Aventicensis (532), Paschasius Radbertus (792), Jacques Roubaud (1932), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829), and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716). After him are Albert Robida (1848), Jules Guesde (1845), Philippe Quinault (1635), Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674), Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746), and René Crevel (1900).

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