MILITARY PERSONNEL

François Joseph Lefebvre

1755 - 1820

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François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig ( lə-FEV-rə, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʒozɛf ləfɛvʁ]; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820), was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Joseph Lefebvre has received more than 194,055 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). François Joseph Lefebvre is the 499th most popular military personnel (down from 318th in 2019), the 1,399th most popular biography from France (down from 879th in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Military Personnel.

François Joseph Lefebvre was a French General who is most famous for his role in the Battle of Waterloo.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, François Joseph Lefebvre ranks 499 out of 2,058. Before him are Lucius Artorius Castus, Qi Jiguang, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ma Dai, Dmitry Pavlov, and William Westmoreland. After him are Thersites, Roustam Raza, Yevhen Konovalets, Josef Harpe, Paul von Rennenkampf, and Dmitry Utkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, François Joseph Lefebvre ranks 16. Before him are Georges Couthon, James Parkinson, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Anthony of Saxony, and Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden. After him are Natalia Alexeievna, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Bertrand Barère, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, and Quatremère de Quincy. Among people deceased in 1820, François Joseph Lefebvre ranks 13. Before him are François Christophe de Kellermann, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Gia Long, Henri Christophe, Manuel Belgrano, and Jean-Lambert Tallien. After him are Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange, Joseph Banks, Clement Mary Hofbauer, Augustin Barruel, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, and Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Joseph Lefebvre ranks 1,399 out of 6,770. Before him are Laurent Schwartz (1915), Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle (1712), Renata of Lorraine (1544), Jacques Laffite (1943), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), and Jacques Balmat (1762). After him are Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409), Fabien Barthez (1971), Adela of Normandy (1065), Marius Jacob (1879), Clément Janequin (1485), and Cécile Chaminade (1857).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, François Joseph Lefebvre ranks 51. Before him are Pierre Augereau (1757), Guillaume Brune (1763), Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (1393), Aegidius (450), Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761), and Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476). After him are Pierre Cambronne (1770), Jacques MacDonald (1765), Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1772), Bob Denard (1929), Oenomaus (-105), and Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754).

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