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Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney

1757 - 1820

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Constantin-François Chassebœuf de La Giraudais (French: [kɔ̃stɑ̃tɛ̃ fʁɑ̃sua ʃasəbœf də la ʒiʁodɛ]), comte de Volney (1757–1820), was a French philosopher, historian, orientalist and politician. In his youth, he attended Madame Helvétius's salon in Paris, where he met Benjamin Franklin during the American War of Independence. He became famous in 1787 with a book about his journey to Ottoman Egypt and Syria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney has received more than 165,124 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney is the 181st most popular explorer (up from 201st in 2019), the 2,230th most popular biography from France (up from 2,429th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney ranks 181 out of 498. Before him are John Sutter, Anthony van Diemen, Jacob van Heemskerck, John Rolfe, Hendrik Brouwer, and Gerónimo de Aguilar. After him are Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, William Parry, Fernão do Pó, René Caillié, Sophie Blanchard, and Nikolai Rezanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney ranks 20. Before him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Ercole Consalvi, and Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein. After him are Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, and Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1820, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney ranks 18. Before him are Jean-Lambert Tallien, François Joseph Lefebvre, Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange, Joseph Banks, Clement Mary Hofbauer, and Augustin Barruel. After him are Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, Alexander Mackenzie, Nguyễn Du, Daniel Boone, and Anders Sparrman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney ranks 2,230 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), Jacques Copeau (1879), Peter Nolasco (1180), Louis Couperin (1626), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), and Gustave Kahn (1859). After him are Joseph Darnand (1897), Fred Vargas (1957), Christian Jacq (1947), Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635), Étienne Dolet (1509), and Sébastien Japrisot (1931).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney ranks 15. Before him are Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean Chardin (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), and Henri Mouhot (1826). After him are René Caillié (1799), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), André Thevet (1516), and Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510).

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