1700–1799
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
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Louis de Montfort1673–1716 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 2
Henri Grégoire1750–1831 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures18 decades - 3
Cardinal de Rohan1734–1803 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 4
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Augustin Barruel1741–1820 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures4 decades - 5
Pigneau de Behaine1741–1799 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 6
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William Joseph Chaminade1761–1850 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures0 decades - 7
Andrew Fournet1752–1834 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures0 decades - 8
Christophe de Beaumont1703–1781 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures22 decades - 9
Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse1750–1815 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures0 decades - 10
Joseph-François Lafitau1681–1746 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures0 decades
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Franz Regis Clet1748–1820 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures0 decades - 12
Charles François Lhomond1727–1794 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures0 decades - 13
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Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan1738–1813 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 14
John Dubois1764–1842 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 15
Claude Poullart des Places1679–1709 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 16
Paul d'Albert, Cardinal de Luynes1703–1788 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures1 decades - 17
Cardinal de Soubise1717–1756 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures0 decades - 18
Natalis Pinot1747–1794 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 19
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Salomon Leclerc1745–1792 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 20
Benedict Joseph Flaget1763–1850 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 21
Louis Constantin of Rohan1697–1779 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 22
Dominique Marie Varlet1678–1742 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 23
Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon1697–1777 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 24
Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron1671–1755 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 25
Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf1734–1799 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 26
Ambrose Maréchal1764–1828 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 27
Frédéric Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld1701–1757 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 28ALAntoine La Vallette1708–1767 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart1708–1777 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 30
Antoine de Montazet1713–1788 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 31MFMichel Fourmont1690–1746 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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Pierre Guérin de Tencin1680–1758 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figures1 decades - 34
Nicolas de Saulx-Tavannes1690–1759 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 35
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Étienne-Alexandre Bernier1762–1806 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 36FDFrançois de Bovet1745–1838 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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Henri Oswald de La Tour d'Auvergne1671–1747 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 38
Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy1677–1753 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 39
John Baptist Mary David1761–1841 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 40JLJacques-François Lefranc1739–1792 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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Camille Le Tellier1675–1718 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 42
Antoine Clériadus de Choiseul-Beaupré1707–1774 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 43
Jacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefonds1698–1746 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 44
Guillaume Repin1709–1794 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 45
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Arthur Richard Dillon1721–1806 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 46
Charles Joachim Colbert de Croissy1667–1738 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 47JBJean-François Boyer1675–1755 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure1721–1818 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 49
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Alexandre Lenfant1726–1792 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 50
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François Lefebvre de Caumartin1668–1733 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 51CDCharles du Plessis d'Argentré1673–1740 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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Pierre-Adrien Toulorge1757–1793 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 53
Jean-Baptiste du Plessis d'Argentré1720–1805 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 54
François Paul de Neufville de Villeroy1677–1731 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 55
Armand-Jules de Rohan-Guémené1695–1762 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 56
Jean-Claude Leblanc de Beaulieu1753–1825 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 57
Antoine Guenée1717–1803 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 58
Jean-Baptiste Rauzan1757–1847 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 59
Michel Poncet de La Rivière1671–1730 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 60
Jean Ignace de La Ville1690–1774 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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Jean-François-Étienne Borderies1764–1832 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 62
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Jean-Baptiste Surian1670–1754 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 63FLFranciscus Le Livec de Trésurin1726–1792 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
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Jean-Baptiste de Brancas1693–1770 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 65
Henri Philippe de Chauvelin1714–1770 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured— - 66
Edme Mongin1668–1746 · 🇫🇷 France · Religious Figuresnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.