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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 a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France 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 634,344 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Charles-Michel de l'Épée is the 9,216th most popular politician (down from 3,714th in 2019), the 2,759th most popular biography from France (down from 1,214th in 2019) and the 647th most popular French Politician.

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

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 9,216 out of 15,577Before him are Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia, Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Parshatatar, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, and Natsagiin Bagabandi. After him are Dục Đức, Isetnofret II, Haim Bar-Lev, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Bujar Nishani, and Johannes van den Bosch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 15Before him are Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Francesco Algarotti, Tokugawa Ieshige, Toriyama Sekien, and George Grenville. After him are Johann Samuel König, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, Claude Bourgelat, Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and James Steuart. Among people deceased in 1789, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 14Before him are Franz Xaver Richter, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, John Cleland, Paolo Renier, and Petrus Camper. After him are Anders Dahl, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Jakob II Bernoulli, Jafar Khan, Sayed Morad Khan, and Paul Egede.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 2,759 out of 6,011Before him are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873), Marc Riboud (1923), Gaspard de Prony (1755), and Jules Dalou (1838). After him are Gabriel Hanot (1889), Princess Françoise of Orléans (1902), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Oscar Cullmann (1902), Georges Leclanché (1836), and Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Charles-Michel de l'Épée ranks 647Before him are Charles Rogier (1800), Gustave Garrigou (1884), Eugène Schneider (1805), François-Xavier Ortoli (1925), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), and Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873). After him are Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060), Valérie Pécresse (1967), Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678), Anne Jules de Noailles (1650), and Alexandre Deschapelles (1780).