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Charles-Michel de l'Épée

1712 - 1789

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Charles-Michel de l'Épée (French: [ʃaʁlmiʃɛl dəlepe]; 24 November 1712 – 23 December 1789) was an 18th-century French philanthropic educator who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles-Michel de l'Épée has received more than 649,061 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles-Michel de l'Épée is the 4,765th most popular politician (up from 9,189th in 2019), the 1,458th most popular biography from France (up from 2,750th in 2019) and the 353rd most popular French Politician.

Charles-Michel de l'Épée is most famous for inventing the manual alphabet.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 4,765 out of 19,576. Before him are Milo Đukanović, Ibbi-Sin, Egica, Túpac Huallpa, Giovanni Sforza, and Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders. After him are Cleisthenes of Sicyon, Joan, Countess of Flanders, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, Chen Shui-bian, Missak Manouchian, and Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 9. Before him are Count of St. Germain, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Francesco Guardi, Sayat-Nova, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, and Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle. After him are Tokugawa Ieshige, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Francesco Algarotti, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Toriyama Sekien, and George Grenville. Among people deceased in 1789, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 8. Before him are Baron d'Holbach, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Claude Joseph Vernet, Ethan Allen, and Jean-Étienne Liotard. After him are Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Franz Xaver Richter, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Paolo Renier, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, and Petrus Camper.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 1,458 out of 6,770. Before him are Michèle Mouton (1951), Vincent d'Indy (1851), Yvette Guilbert (1865), Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734), Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), and Alain Giresse (1952). After him are Joan, Countess of Flanders (1200), Paul Scarron (1610), Theobald II, Count of Champagne (1093), Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (1819), Paul Poiret (1879), and Maria Francisca of Savoy (1646).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 353. Before him are Henri, Prince of Condé (1588), Victorinus (300), Ferdinand Buisson (1841), Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725), and Bernard de Tremelay (1100). After him are Joan, Countess of Flanders (1200), Theobald II, Count of Champagne (1093), Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (1819), James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (1670), Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (1929), and Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220).

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