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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jacques Marquette

1637 - 1675

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Jacques Marquette, S.J. (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Marquette has received more than 599,699 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jacques Marquette is the 1,964th most popular religious figure (down from 1,598th in 2019), the 3,309th most popular biography from France (down from 2,965th in 2019) and the 170th most popular French Religious Figure.

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  • 600k

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  • 50.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jacques Marquette ranks 1,964 out of 2,238Before him are Anastasia the Patrician, Saint Pirmin, Carlo Furno, Raffaele Farina, Zacharias of Jerusalem, and Jozef De Kesel. After him are Ivan Dias, August Hlond, Gisbertus Voetius, Basil III of Constantinople, Serapion of Antioch, and Nicholas of Lyra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1637, Jacques Marquette ranks 11Before him are Bernardo Pasquini, Nicolas Catinat, Jan van der Heyden, Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Anne Marie Martinozzi, and Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau.  Among people deceased in 1675, Jacques Marquette ranks 20Before him are Feodosia Morozova, Gaspard Dughet, Allaert van Everdingen, Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, and August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. After him are Michael van Langren, Domenico II Contarini, and Cort Adeler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Marquette ranks 3,309 out of 6,011Before him are Peter Fourier (1565), Andréa Ferréol (1947), Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842), Brigitte Fontaine (1939), André Cardinal Destouches (1672), and André-Louis Danjon (1890). After him are Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy (1018), Baude Cordier (1364), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Othon de la Roche (1200), Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930), and Casimir Delavigne (1793).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Jacques Marquette ranks 170Before him are Jean du Bellay (1492), Jean du Vergier de Hauranne (1581), François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715), Louis Bourdaloue (1632), Claude Fleury (1640), and Peter Fourier (1565). After him are Michel Garicoïts (1797), Louis Antoine de Noailles (1651), Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895), François de Laval (1623), Chlodulf of Metz (null), and Jeanne Jugan (1792).