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← 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. 1Louis de Montfort1673-1716 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  2. 2Henri Grégoire1750-1831 · France · Religious Figures18 decades
  3. 3Cardinal de Rohan1734-1803 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  4. 4Augustin Barruel1741-1820 · France · Religious Figures4 decades
  5. 5William Joseph Chaminade1761-1850 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  6. 6Pigneau de Behaine1741-1799 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  7. 7Christophe de Beaumont1703-1781 · France · Religious Figures22 decades
  8. 8Joseph-François Lafitau1681-1746 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Franz Regis Clet1748-1820 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  10. 10Andrew Fournet1752-1834 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse1750-1815 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Charles François Lhomond1727-1794 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  13. 13John Dubois1764-1842 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  14. 14Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan1738-1813 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  15. 15Claude Poullart des Places1679-1709 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  16. 16Salomon Leclerc1745-1792 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  17. 17Paul d'Albert, Cardinal de Luynes1703-1788 · France · Religious Figures1 decades
  18. 18Cardinal de Soubise1717-1756 · France · Religious Figures0 decades
  19. 19Natalis Pinot1747-1794 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  20. 20Dominique Marie Varlet1678-1742 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  21. 21Jean-Martin Moye1730-1793 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  22. 22Benedict Joseph Flaget1763-1850 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  23. 23Louis Constantin of Rohan1697-1779 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  24. 24Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron1671-1755 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  25. 25Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon1697-1777 · France · Religious Figuresnot measured-
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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.