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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

François-Jean de la Barre

1745 - 1766

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François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre (12 September 1745 – 1 July 1766) was a young French nobleman. He was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François-Jean de la Barre has received more than 138,266 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. François-Jean de la Barre is the 340th most popular social activist, the 3,285th most popular biography from France and the 20th most popular French Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, François-Jean de la Barre ranks 340 out of 538. Before him are Amelia Bloomer, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Black Elk, Pingali Venkayya, Aruna Asaf Ali, and Muhammad Zaidan. After him are Nasrin Sotoudeh, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Edna Parker, Donald Watson, Mary Edwards Walker, and Anatoly Marchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, François-Jean de la Barre ranks 34. Before him are Johann Peter Frank, Bodawpaya, Caspar Wessel, Antonio José Cavanilles, Isaac Titsingh, and Inō Tadataka. After him are Madhavrao I, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Félix María de Samaniego, Benjamin Rush, Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, and Timothy Pickering. Among people deceased in 1766, François-Jean de la Barre ranks 15. Before him are Thomas Abbt, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Marie Victoire de Noailles, Jean Astruc, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, and Dominikus Zimmermann. After him are Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Ivan Polzunov, and Jane Colden.

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In France

Among people born in France, François-Jean de la Barre ranks 3,285 out of 6,011. Before him are Claude Le Roy (1948), René de Froulay de Tessé (1648), Lucien Tesnière (1893), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Pascal Lamy (1947), and Paulette Dubost (1910). After him are Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Wojciech Kossak (1856), Gabriel Hanotaux (1853), Michel Duchaussoy (1938), François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588), and Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany (1000).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, François-Jean de la Barre ranks 20. Before him are Ravachol (1859), Guillaume Cale (1350), Marina Ginestà (1919), Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811), Osman Kavala (1957), and Germaine Tillion (1907). After him are Christine Delphy (1941), Joseph Wresinski (1917), Eugénie Cotton (1881), and Dieudonné M'bala M'bala (1966).

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