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François Laurent d'Arlandes

1742 - 1809

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François Laurent d'Arlandes (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa loʁɑ̃ lə vjø daʁlɑ̃d]; 1742 – 1 May 1809) was a French marquis, soldier and a pioneer of hot air ballooning. He and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. D'Arlandes was born in Anneyron in the Dauphiné. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Laurent d'Arlandes has received more than 50,415 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). François Laurent d'Arlandes is the 112th most popular engineer, the 2,228th most popular biography from France (down from 2,140th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 112 out of 389. Before him are Carlo Abarth, Stephen Timoshenko, Yevgeny Dragunov, Robert Stephenson, Pierre Clostermann, and John Bagot Glubb. After him are Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Joseph M. Juran, Sergei Khrushchev, Alexandre Darracq, Georgy Shpagin, and John A. Roebling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 11. Before him are Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Nicolas Leblanc, Dositej Obradović, and Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier. After him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Ignaz von Born, Charlotte von Stein, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, and Nathanael Greene. Among people deceased in 1809, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 12. Before him are Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Joseph-Marie Vien, and Matthew Boulton. After him are Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Leopold Auenbrugger, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Ueda Akinari, Augustin Pajou, and Ludwig von Cobenzl.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 2,228 out of 6,770. Before him are Géraud Duroc (1772), Hincmar (806), Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), Jacques Copeau (1879), Peter Nolasco (1180), and Louis Couperin (1626). After him are Gustave Kahn (1859), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Joseph Darnand (1897), Fred Vargas (1957), Christian Jacq (1947), and Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 13. Before him are Marcel Dassault (1892), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), and Henry Darcy (1803). After him are Alexandre Darracq (1855), Georges Leclanché (1836), Pierre Berthier (1782), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Gabriel Voisin (1880), and Adolphe Alphand (1817).

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