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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

French poet and critic

Born 1 November 1636 · died 13 March 1711, aged 74
Also known as Nicolas Boileau

Who was alive at the same time as Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux?

  1. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  2. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  3. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  4. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  5. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  6. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  7. Molière, 1622 – 1673
  8. Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662
  9. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  10. Baruch Spinoza, 1632 – 1677
  11. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, 1636 – 1711
  12. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  13. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  14. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  16. Jonathan Swift, 1667 – 1745
  17. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  18. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  19. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  20. Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755
  21. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  22. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  23. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  24. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778

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When Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux was born, Galileo Galilei was 72, René Descartes was 40, Molière was 14, John Locke was 4 and Rembrandt was 30.

When Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux died, Isaac Newton was 68, Johann Sebastian Bach was 25, Voltaire was 16, Benjamin Franklin was 5 and Carl Linnaeus was 3.

Born during Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux’s lifetime: Isaac Newton, Johann Sebastian Bach, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Linnaeus, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matsuo Bashō and Leonhard Euler.

Not quite contemporaries: Immanuel Kant was born about 13 years after Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux died, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born about a year after Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux died, Adam Smith was born about 12 years after Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux died and Francis Bacon died about 10 years before Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

194 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1674.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  4. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  5. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  6. Molière 1622 – 1673
  7. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  8. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  9. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  10. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  12. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  13. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
  14. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  15. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  16. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  17. Baruch Spinoza 1632 – 1677
  18. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  19. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  20. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  21. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  22. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  23. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  24. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  25. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  26. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  27. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  28. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  29. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  30. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  31. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  32. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  33. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
  34. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  35. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  36. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  37. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  38. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  39. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  40. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  41. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  42. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  43. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  44. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  45. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  46. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  47. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  48. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  49. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  50. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  51. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
  52. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  53. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  54. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  55. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  56. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  57. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  58. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  59. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  62. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  63. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  64. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  65. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  66. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  67. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  68. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  69. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  70. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  71. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  72. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  73. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  74. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  75. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  76. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  77. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  78. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  79. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  80. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  81. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  82. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  83. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  84. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  85. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  86. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  87. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  88. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  89. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  90. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  91. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  92. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  93. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  94. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  95. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  96. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  97. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  98. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  99. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  100. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  101. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  102. Ole Rømer 1644 – 1710
  103. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  104. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  105. Mary II 1662 – 1694
  106. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  107. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  108. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  109. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  110. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  111. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  112. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  113. Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625 – 1712
  114. Jean de La Bruyère 1645 – 1696
  115. Jacob Bernoulli c. 1655 – 1705
  116. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  117. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  118. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  119. Aphra Behn 1640 – 1689
  120. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  121. Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651 – 1695
  122. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  123. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  124. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  125. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  126. Johann Bernoulli 1667 – 1748
  127. Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 – 1767
  128. Alexis of Russia 1629 – 1676
  129. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor 1640 – 1705
  130. Mehmed IV 1642 – 1693
  131. Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 – 1717
  132. Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
  133. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  134. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  135. Suleiman II 1642 – 1691
  136. Ahmed III 1673 – 1736
  137. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  138. Guru Gobind Singh 1666 – 1708
  139. Canaletto 1697 – 1768
  140. Shivaji 1627 – 1680
  141. François Fénelon 1651 – 1715
  142. Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 – 1764
  143. Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721
  144. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  145. Cyrano de Bergerac c. 1619 – 1655
  146. Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 – 1687
  147. Prince Eugene of Savoy 1663 – 1736
  148. Domenico Scarlatti 1685 – 1757
  149. Mahmud I 1696 – 1754
  150. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708 – 1765