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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 the French governor of the Bastille. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay has received more than 185,804 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay is the 7,001st most popular politician (down from 5,604th in 2019), the 2,091st most popular biography from France (down from 1,740th in 2019) and the 515th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 7,001 out of 15,577. Before him are Henry of Flanders, Sancho of Majorca, François Georges-Picot, Tomás Estrada Palma, Edmund Veesenmayer, and Tai Wu. After him are Otto Hofmann, Ramón Grau, Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, Igor Sergeyev, Vsevolod II of Kiev, and Andrés Bello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 12. Before him are Jeanne Baret, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Carl Michael Bellman, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Giambattista Bodoni, and Johann van Beethoven. After him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, James Boswell, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, and Matthias Claudius. 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 Franz Xaver Richter. After him are Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, John Cleland, Paolo Renier, Petrus Camper, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, and Anders Dahl.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 2,091 out of 6,011. Before him are Carolus-Duran (1837), Jean Picard (1620), Henry of Flanders (1174), François Georges-Picot (1870), Jacques Copeau (1879), and Joséphin Péladan (1858). After him are Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (1767), Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), Pierre Fournier (1906), and Marquis de Custine (1790).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay ranks 515. Before him are Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (1778), Margaret of Bourbon (1438), Zénaïde Bonaparte (1801), Magdalena of France (1443), Henry of Flanders (1174), and François Georges-Picot (1870). After him are Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (1767), Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579), Pierre Fournier (1906), Joseph Darnand (1897), Léon Duguit (1859), and Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414).

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