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Jacques Cartier

1491 - 1557

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Jacques Cartier (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Cartier has received more than 2,846,935 page views. His biography is available in 145 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 139 in 2019). Jacques Cartier is the 20th most popular explorer (up from 22nd in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from France and the most popular French Explorer.

Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who is most famous for discovering the St. Lawrence River and claiming Canada for France.

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  • 74.64

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  • 145

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jacques Cartier ranks 20 out of 498. Before him are Prince Henry the Navigator, Abel Tasman, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Xuanzang, Fridtjof Nansen, and Juan Sebastián Elcano. After him are David Livingstone, Jacques Cousteau, Erik the Red, Vitus Bering, Leif Erikson, and Willem Barentsz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1491, Jacques Cartier ranks 3. Before him are Henry VIII of England, and Ignatius of Loyola. After him are Zhengde Emperor, Lapu-Lapu, Martin Bucer, Francesco Melzi, Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Teofilo Folengo, and Nicolò da Ponte. Among people deceased in 1557, Jacques Cartier ranks 1. After him are Anne of Cleves, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, John III of Portugal, Pontormo, Bona Sforza, Mikael Agricola, Olaus Magnus, Sebastian Cabot, Emperor Go-Nara, Lautaro, and Giovanni Francesco Straparola.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Cartier ranks 161 out of 6,770. Before him are Évariste Galois (1811), Jean-François Millet (1814), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Georges Pompidou (1911), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), and François Viète (1540). After him are Peter Abelard (1079), Philip VI of France (1293), Pope Martin IV (1220), Théodore Géricault (1791), Jacques Cousteau (1910), and Henry Cavendish (1731).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jacques Cartier ranks 1. After him are Jacques Cousteau (1910), Pytheas (-380), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Samuel de Champlain (1567), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean Chardin (1643), and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705).

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