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Francis de Laporte de Castelnau

1810 - 1880

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François-Louis Nompar de Caumont Laporte, comte de Castelnau (born François-Louis Nompar de Caumont La Force; 24 December 1802 – 4 February 1880) was a French naturalist, known also as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau. The standard author abbreviation Castelnau is used to indicate him when citing a botanical name and zoological names other than insects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis de Laporte de Castelnau has received more than 32,054 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Francis de Laporte de Castelnau is the 3,472nd most popular writer (down from 3,417th in 2019), the 2,574th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,547th in 2019) and the 298th most popular British Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau ranks 3,472 out of 5,755. Before him are Alf Prøysen, Abdullah Goran, Valerius Antias, Gianni Celati, Daniel-Rops, and Símun av Skarði. After him are George Kodinos, Mirko Kovač, Srečko Kosovel, Léon-Paul Fargue, Oton Župančič, and Laurence Oliphant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau ranks 50. Before him are Norbert Burgmüller, Ferdinand David, Stanko Vraz, Alexandre Calame, Alexandre Herculano, and Juan Bautista Alberdi. After him are Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Maurice de Guérin, Giovanni Lanza, L. L. Langstroth, George Robert Waterhouse, and Eugène Belgrand. Among people deceased in 1880, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau ranks 38. Before him are Alphonse Pénaud, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Peter Wilhelm Lund, August Karl von Goeben, Lucretia Mott, and Edwin Drake. After him are Edmond Albius, Manuel Montt, Nikolay Zinin, James Craig Watson, Benjamin Peirce, and Nils Johan Andersson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau ranks 2,574 out of 7,765. Before him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Phil Read (1939), Alan Lee (1947), Sam Allardyce (1954), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), and Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301). After him are Thomas Fairfax (1612), Ida of Bernicia (450), Siân Phillips (1933), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), and Paul Johnson (1928).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau ranks 298. Before him are James Herbert Brennan (1940), Martin Amis (1949), Israel Zangwill (1864), Sue Townsend (1946), John Aubrey (1626), and Siegfried Sassoon (1886). After him are Paul Johnson (1928), John Winthrop (1588), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Frances Burney (1752), Andrew Lang (1844), and Anita Brookner (1928).

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