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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. He met Joseph Montgolfier at the Jesuit college of Tournon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Laurent d'Arlandes has received more than 45,218 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. François Laurent d'Arlandes is the 114th most popular engineer (down from 112th in 2019), the 2,147th most popular biography from France (down from 2,136th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Engineer.

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Among engineers, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 114 out of 323Before him are Christian Otto Mohr, Adrian Newey, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Viktor Kaplan, Pierre Clostermann, and Alexander Cunningham. After him are Alexander Lodygin, Robert Stephenson, Álvaro del Portillo, Hertha Ayrton, John A. Roebling, and Flaminio Bertoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 11Before him are Yemelyan Pugachev, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Nicolas Leblanc, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, and Dositej Obradović. After him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Ignaz von Born, Charlotte von Stein, Pōmare I, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, and Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard. Among people deceased in 1809, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 10Before him are Rama I, Nicolai Abildgaard, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, and Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy. After him are August Ludwig von Schlözer, Matthew Boulton, Joseph-Marie Vien, Leopold Auenbrugger, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, and Ueda Akinari.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 2,147 out of 6,011Before him are Jean Girault (1924), Ivo of Chartres (1040), Jean Françaix (1912), Maria of Navarre (1326), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), and Amalric of Bena (1150). After him are Gilbert de la Porrée (1070), Manitas de Plata (1921), Henri Gouraud (1867), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989), and Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1669).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 13Before him are Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), Henry Darcy (1803), and André Courrèges (1923). After him are Alexandre Darracq (1855), Pierre Berthier (1782), Philippe LeBon (1767), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Jorge Chávez (1887), and Georges Leclanché (1836).