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Jean Bodel

1165 - 1205

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Jean Bodel (c. 1165 – c. 1210), also spelled Jehan Bodel, was an Old French poet who wrote a number of chansons de geste as well as many fabliaux. He lived in Arras. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Bodel is the 1,666th most popular writer (up from 1,701st in 2019), the 1,918th most popular biography from France (up from 1,959th in 2019) and the 238th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Jean Bodel ranks 1,666 out of 7,302. Before him are Avraham Stern, Margherita Sarfatti, Eino Leino, Thomas Keneally, György Konrád, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. After him are André Pieyre de Mandiargues, André Brink, Marquis de Custine, Antonio de Nebrija, Miklós Zrínyi, and Arnaldur Indriðason.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1165, Jean Bodel ranks 11. Before him are Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Albert of Riga, Henry I, Duke of Brabant, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, and Phillipe de Plessis. After him are Waleran III, Duke of Limburg, Władysław III Spindleshanks, Pelagio Galvani, Vukan Nemanjić, Bénézet, and Renaud I, Count of Dammartin. Among people deceased in 1205, Jean Bodel ranks 10. Before him are Isabella I of Jerusalem, Jamukha, Peter Waldo, Constantine Laskaris, Ladislaus III of Hungary, and Roman the Great. After him are Louis I, Count of Blois, Peire Vidal, Nicholas of Verdun, Joan I, Countess of Burgundy, and Otto II, Margrave of Brandenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Bodel ranks 1,918 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Maurice de Sully (1110), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), and Guy Mollet (1905). After him are Charles Friedel (1822), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), Jules Brunet (1838), André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909), Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (1693), and Michelle of Valois (1395).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Bodel ranks 238. Before him are René Char (1907), Robert Brasillach (1909), Jacques Amyot (1513), Rodulfus Glaber (985), Robert Desnos (1900), and Adèle Hugo (1830). After him are André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909), Marquis de Custine (1790), Marcel Achard (1899), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Varro Atacinus (-82), and Anne Desclos (1907).

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