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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu	3,782
2	Denis Diderot	1,878
3	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	1,594
4	Jean Meslier	634
5	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	546
6	Jean le Rond d'Alembert	457
7	Baron d'Holbach	308
8	Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau	302
9	Claude Adrien Helvétius	171
10	François-André Danican Philidor	125
11	Jean-Georges Noverre	99
12	Encyclopédistes	97
13	Nicolas Chamfort	82
14	Charles de Brosses	57
15	Jean Astruc	48
16	Jean-François Marmontel	45
17	Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse	44
18	Stéphanie Félicité du Crest de Saint-Aubin	37
19	Jean-Baptiste Labat	27
20	Jacques Cazotte	25
21	Madame de Montesson	24
22	Françoise de Graffigny	24
23	François Baron de Tott	22
24	Jacques Mallet du Pan	21
25	Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon	20
26	Jean de La Chapelle	20
27	Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon	19
28	Jean-François de La Harpe	18
29	François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut	18
30	Jérôme Besoigne	16
31	Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville	16
32	Charles-Pierre Colardeau	16
33	Mademoiselle Aïssé	13
34	Matthieu Marais	13
35	Pierre Rameau	13
36	Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne de Tressan	13
37	Barthélemy de Lesseps	13
38	Jacques-André Naigeon	12
39	Nicolas Antoine Boulanger	12
40	Antoine-Joseph Pernety	11
41	Jean-François Cailhava de L'Estandoux	11
42	Firmin Abauzit	10
43	Victor d'Hupay	10
44	Pierre-Louis Ginguené	9
45	Charles-Georges Le Roy	9
46	Étienne Aignan	8
47	Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie	8
48	Claude Brossette	8
49	Jean-Nicolas Démeunier	8
50	Chevalier de Mailly	8
51	François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil	8
52	Antoine Léonard Thomas	8
53	François-Vincent Toussaint	7
54	Jean Dumont	7
55	Louis-Antoine Caraccioli	7
56	Robert Challe	7
57	Pierre Desfontaines	7
58	Jacques de la Faye	7
59	Pierre-Jean Grosley	7
60	Henri de Thiard de Bissy	7
61	Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon	7
62	Pierre-Joseph Alary	7
63	Louis Dutens	6
64	Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard	6
65	Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey	less than 5 views
66	Charles-Hyacinthe Hugo	less than 5 views
67	Charles-Albert Demoustier	less than 5 views
68	François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif	less than 5 views
69	Claude Joseph Dorat	less than 5 views
70	Claude Pierre Goujet	less than 5 views
71	Louis-Pierre d'Hozier	less than 5 views
72	Abbé Aubert	less than 5 views
73	Charles Constance César Joseph Matthieu d'Agoult	less than 5 views
74	Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet	less than 5 views
75	Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet	less than 5 views
76	Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne	less than 5 views
77	François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire	less than 5 views
78	Jean-Pierre de Bougainville	less than 5 views
79	Nicolas-Hubert de Mongault	less than 5 views
80	Nicolas Beauzée	less than 5 views
81	Jean-Paul Bignon	less than 5 views
82	Jean Boivin the Younger	less than 5 views
83	Louis Boivin	less than 5 views
84	Jean Bouhier (jurist)	less than 5 views
85	Joseph Séguy	less than 5 views
86	Jean-François Du Bellay du Resnel	less than 5 views

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• 18th century in France
• 18th-century French people
• 18th-century writers
• French writers by time period
• The Enlightenment

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