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Francis Garnier

1839 - 1873

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Marie Joseph François Garnier (Vietnamese: Ngạc Nhi; 25 July 1839 – 21 December 1873) was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Garnier has received more than 82,527 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Francis Garnier is the 261st most popular explorer (down from 239th in 2019), the 3,091st most popular biography from France (down from 2,832nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 83k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Francis Garniers by language

Over the past year Francis Garnier has had the most page views in the with 9,760 views, followed by Vietnamese (9,592), and French (6,851). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (295.49%), Bulgarian (38.96%), and Egyptian Arabic (37.58%)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Francis Garnier ranks 261 out of 498. Before him are Hjalmar Johansen, William Smith, Pierre Poivre, Jens Munk, Carl Peters, and Oscar Wisting. After him are Jim Bridger, Anthony Jenkinson, Willem de Vlamingh, Isidore of Charax, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, and Ippolito Rosellini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Francis Garnier ranks 45. Before him are George Mary Searle, John Butler Yeats, Abdyl Frashëri, Luigi Pelloux, Walter Pater, and Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì. After him are Pōmare V, Hermann Hankel, Nikolai Linevich, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Otto Finsch, and Bernardino Caballero. Among people deceased in 1873, Francis Garnier ranks 38. Before him are Adam Sedgwick, Ferdinand David, Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Giovanni Battista Donati, Louis Le Chatelier, and Bénédict Morel. After him are Hermann Hankel, Malek Jahan Khanom, Paweł Strzelecki, Auguste von Harrach, Caterina Scarpellini, and Mary Ann Cotton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Francis Garnier ranks 3,091 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786), Armand Salacrou (1899), Jean-François Revel (1924), Pierre Bézier (1910), and Jacques Hamel (1930). After him are Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740), Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836), Serge Dassault (1925), Pascal Bruckner (1948), and Claudin de Sermisy (1490).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Francis Garnier ranks 28. Before him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), Nicolas Baudin (1754), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), and Pierre Poivre (1719). After him are Freya Stark (1893), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Henri Duveyrier (1840), and Étienne Brûlé (1592).

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