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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

1675 - 1755

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Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE (French pronunciation: [lwi də ʁuvʁwa]; 16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755), was a French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne (demolished in 1876 to make way for the Boulevard Saint-Germain). The family's ducal peerage (duché-pairie), granted in 1635 to his father Claude de Rouvroy (1608–1693), served as both perspective and theme in Saint-Simon's life and writings. He was the second and last Duke of Saint-Simon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon is the 1,476th most popular writer (down from 1,470th in 2019), the 1,705th most popular biography from France (up from 1,706th in 2019) and the 211th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 1,476 out of 7,302. Before him are Liang Qichao, Dan Simmons, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Paul Rée, Marie de Gournay, and Léon Werth. After him are Claudio Magris, Cratinus, Luís Fróis, Joseph Bédier, Anna de Noailles, and James Tiptree Jr..

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Among people born in 1675, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 4. Before him are Pope Benedict XIV, Emperor Higashiyama, and Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco. After him are Tarabai, William Jones, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Guillaume Delisle, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Samuel Clarke, and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg. Among people deceased in 1755, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 8. Before him are Johann Georg Pisendel, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Francesco Durante, Johann Georg Gmelin, Gerard Majella, and Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach. After him are Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz, Zhang Tingyu, Philipp Stamma, and Edward Braddock.

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Among people born in France, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 1,705 out of 6,770. Before him are Vincent of Lérins (400), Édouard Roche (1820), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Roger Ducos (1747), Marie de Gournay (1565), and Léon Werth (1878). After him are Christian de Castries (1902), Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (1756), Joseph Bédier (1864), Marcel Renault (1872), Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740), and Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon ranks 211. Before him are Marcel Aymé (1902), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Marie de Gournay (1565), and Léon Werth (1878). After him are Joseph Bédier (1864), Anna de Noailles (1876), François de Malherbe (1555), Régis Debray (1940), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), and Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734).

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