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Madame d'Aulnoy

1651 - 1705

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Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (September 1652 – 14 January 1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was a French author known for her literary fairy tales. Her 1697 collection Les Contes des Fées (Fairy Tales) coined the literary genre's name and included the first story to feature "Prince Charmant" or Prince Charming. She is considered to have been a member of les conteuses group of French female authors. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Madame d'Aulnoy is the 1,264th most popular writer (up from 1,520th in 2019), the 1,438th most popular biography from France (up from 1,767th in 2019) and the 183rd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 1,264 out of 7,302. Before her are Émile Gaboriau, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Siegfried Kracauer, John Tzetzes, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and Rodolphe Töpffer. After her are Vittorio Alfieri, Jan Kochanowski, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Eiji Yoshikawa, Vinicius de Moraes, and Nikolaus Lenau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1651, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 8. Before her are Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, François Fénelon, William Dampier, Natalya Naryshkina, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, and Engelbert Kaempfer. After her are Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, Louis Antoine de Noailles, Joseph Vaz, and William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1705, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 11. Before her are Luca Giordano, Ninon de l'Enclos, Philipp Spener, Catherine of Braganza, John Ray, and George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After her are Pierre Beauchamp, Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Guillaume Amontons, Bada Shanren, Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark, and Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 1,438 out of 6,770. Before her are Émile Gaboriau (1832), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Bertrand Blier (1939), Philippe Starck (1949), and Emmanuelle Béart (1963). After her are Pierre Mauroy (1928), Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785), Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Medardus (470), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), and Marguerite Perey (1909).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Madame d'Aulnoy ranks 183. Before her are Pierre de Marivaux (1688), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Charles Péguy (1873), Léon Bloy (1846), Émile Gaboriau (1832), and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893). After her are Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Pierre Larousse (1817), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Jean Giono (1895), Maurice Barrès (1862), and Georges Feydeau (1862).

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