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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

1636 - 1711

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (French: [nikɔla bwalo depʁeo]; 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau (UK: , US: ), was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux is the 411th most popular writer (down from 410th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from France (down from 474th in 2019) and the 70th most popular French Writer.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux is most famous for his poem "The Art of Poetry," which was published in 1674.

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Among writers, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 411 out of 7,302. Before him are Susan Sontag, Livius Andronicus, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Wilhelm Grimm, Jorge Amado, and W. B. Yeats. After him are Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Sándor Petőfi, Wu Cheng'en, James Fenimore Cooper, Henning Mankell, and Arthur de Gobineau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1636, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Adriaen van de Velde, Laura Mancini, Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Edward Colston, Nikolai Spathari, and Libéral Bruant. Among people deceased in 1711, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 3. Before him are Louis, Grand Dauphin, and Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Louis-François de Boufflers, Frederick William, Duke of Courland, Maria Amalia of Courland, Vladimir Atlasov, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Joseph Vaz, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, and Eusebio Kino.

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Among people born in France, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 483 out of 6,770. Before him are Pytheas (-380), Louis Néel (1904), Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (1852), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Roger Vadim (1928), and Fernand Léger (1881). After him are Charles Nicolle (1866), Stephen, King of England (1095), André Masséna (1758), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux ranks 70. Before him are Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Théophile Gautier (1811), Jean Genet (1910), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Auguste Escoffier (1847), and Paul Éluard (1895). After him are Arthur de Gobineau (1816), Jacques Prévert (1900), William of Rubruck (1220), Gregory of Tours (538), Georges Bataille (1897), and Henri Barbusse (1873).

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