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Louis-Sébastien Mercier

1740 - 1814

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Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel L'An 2440 is an example of proto-science fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-Sébastien Mercier is the 1,799th most popular writer (up from 1,814th in 2019), the 2,078th most popular biography from France (down from 2,059th in 2019) and the 256th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 1,799 out of 7,302. Before him are Lilya Brik, Colin Dexter, Juan Carlos Onetti, Gaius Julius Solinus, Yaşar Kemal, and Slavenka Drakulić. After him are Li He, Stéphane Hessel, Augusto Boal, Ion Luca Caragiale, Eduard Mörike, and Stephen Crane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 12. Before him are Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Carl Michael Bellman, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. After him are John Sullivan, Giambattista Bodoni, John Latham, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, and Anders Johan Lexell. Among people deceased in 1814, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 12. Before him are Benjamin Thompson, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, and Arthur Phillip. After him are Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Matthew Flinders, Elbridge Gerry, and Aleijadinho.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 2,078 out of 6,770. Before him are Madeleine Lebeau (1923), Gabriel Naudé (1600), Paul Cornu (1881), Paul Pogba (1993), Émile Chartier (1868), and Jean Sorel (1934). After him are Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (1343), William Kennedy Dickson (1860), Charles, Prince Napoléon (1950), Léon Brillouin (1889), Antoine Coysevox (1640), and Peter Nolasco (1180).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louis-Sébastien Mercier ranks 256. Before him are Dominique Venner (1935), François Coppée (1842), Francis Jammes (1868), Raymond Roussel (1877), Julien Gracq (1910), and Gabriel Naudé (1600). After him are Pierre Reverdy (1889), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Jacques Cazotte (1719), Joseph Joubert (1754), Marcel Schwob (1867), and Georges Duhamel (1884).

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