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Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay

1740 - 1789

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Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (8/9 April 1740 – 14 July 1789) was a French Royal Army officer and nobleman who served as the governor of the Bastille. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay has received more than 212,854 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay is the 6,619th most popular politician (up from 6,982nd in 2019), the 1,963rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,084th in 2019) and the 475th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 6,619 out of 19,576. Before him are Olaf I of Denmark, Cao Ang, Giulio Alberoni, Chang of Goryeo, Joan of Kent, and Mahmud Hotak. After him are Marie Anne Mancini, Fusako Shigenobu, Adolph Diesterweg, Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, Sergius I of Constantinople, and Valerian Kuybyshev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 12. Before him are Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, and Giambattista Bodoni. After him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, James Boswell, John Latham, Matthias Claudius, and Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1789, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 9. Before him are Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Claude Joseph Vernet, Ethan Allen, Jean-Étienne Liotard, and Charles-Michel de l'Épée. After him are Franz Xaver Richter, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Paolo Renier, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Petrus Camper, and John Cleland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 1,963 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta (1866), Jean Bodel (1165), Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (1249), Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717), and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1669). After him are William Kennedy Dickson (1860), François Girardon (1628), David d'Angers (1788), Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (1557), Jean Rouch (1917), and Félix Gouin (1884).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 475. Before him are Louis-François de Boufflers (1644), Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721), François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1644), Henry of Flanders (1174), William Clito (1102), and Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717). After him are Félix Gouin (1884), Ermesinde of Carcassonne (972), Jean-Marc Ayrault (1950), Zénaïde Bonaparte (1801), Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (1166), and Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie (1718).

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