← Fame through time1700-1799
The 18th century
Whose working lives fell in the 18th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 18th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Jean-Baptiste Kléber0 decades
- 2
Pierre Charles L’Enfant0 decades - 3
Étienne-Louis Boullée0 decades - 4
Claude Nicolas Ledoux5 decades - 5
Ange-Jacques Gabriel9 decades - 6
Jacques-François Blondel8 decades - 7
Jean-François Chalgrinnot measured- - 8
Charles Percier Bassant7 decades - 9
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontainenot measured- - 10François de Cuvilliésnot measured-
- 11
Victor Louis14 decades - 12
Germain Boffrand12 decades - 13
Jean-Jacques Lequeu0 decades - 14
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart2 decades - 15
Jean-Rodolphe Perronet1 decades - 16Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothenot measured-
- 17
Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blondnot measured- - 18
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durandnot measured- - 19
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Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier0 decades - 20
Richard Mique12 decades - 21
Jean-François Thomas de Thomonnot measured- - 22
Emmanuel Héré de Corny5 decades - 23
Charles-Louis Clérisseau1 decades - 24
Philippe Buache10 decades - 25
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoninot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.