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Madame de La Fayette

1634 - 1693

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Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Madame de La Fayette is the 550th most popular writer (up from 596th in 2019), the 649th most popular biography from France (up from 696th in 2019) and the 91st most popular French Writer.

Madame de la Fayette is most famous for her novel, La Princesse de Clèves.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Madame de La Fayette ranks 550 out of 7,302. Before her are Augusta, Lady Gregory, Jean Paul, Enid Blyton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Rudaki. After her are Anaïs Nin, Camilo José Cela, Robert A. Heinlein, Alice Munro, Yunus Emre, and Henry IV of Castile.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1634, Madame de La Fayette ranks 3. Before her are Mariana of Austria, and Kara Mustafa Pasha. After her are Luca Giordano, Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Nicolaes Maes, Hümaşah Sultan, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, and John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach. Among people deceased in 1693, Madame de La Fayette ranks 2. Before her is Mehmed IV. After her are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Ihara Saikaku, Willem Kalf, Nicolaes Maes, Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, John de Britto, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Elisabeth Hevelius, and Johann Caspar Kerll.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame de La Fayette ranks 649 out of 6,770. Before her are Jacques MacDonald (1765), Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), Sophie Marceau (1966), Aristide Maillol (1861), Madeleine of Valois (1520), and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748). After her are Anaïs Nin (1903), Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372), Roger Garaudy (1913), Rashi (1040), Pierre Richard (1934), and Darius Milhaud (1892).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Madame de La Fayette ranks 91. Before her are Hector Malot (1830), Boris Vian (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), and Camille Flammarion (1842). After her are Anaïs Nin (1903), Frontinus (30), Alfred Jarry (1873), Adam de la Halle (1245), Gaston Leroux (1868), and Gérard de Nerval (1808).

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