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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier

1705 - 1786

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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʃaʁl buvɛ də lozje]; 14 January 1705 – 1786) was a French sailor, explorer, and governor of the Mascarene Islands to the east of Madagascar. He was orphaned at the age of seven and after being educated in Paris, he was sent to Saint Malo to study navigation. He became a lieutenant of the French East India Company in 1731. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier has received more than 76,470 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier is the 138th most popular explorer (up from 149th in 2019), the 1,762nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,905th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Explorer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 138 out of 498. Before him are Francisco Serrão, Juan de Grijalva, Vladimir Arsenyev, João Vaz Corte-Real, Gil Eanes, and Frederick Cook. After him are Andrés de Urdaneta, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Otto Sverdrup, Mikhail Lazarev, Sebastián de Belalcázar, and Scylax of Caryanda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 5. Before him are Pope Clement XIV, Farinelli, Karim Khan Zand, and Leopold Joseph von Daun. After him are Charles-André van Loo, David Hartley, Jacques-François Blondel, Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Peter Artedi, Philipp Stamma, and Maximilian Ulysses Browne. Among people deceased in 1786, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 10. Before him are Peter III of Portugal, Maurice Benyovszky, Franz Benda, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, and Eva Ekeblad. After him are Antonio Sacchini, Hans Joachim von Zieten, Pierre Poivre, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Bernardo de Gálvez, and Thomas Wright.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 1,762 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (1643), Albin Lermusiaux (1874), Louise Labé (1524), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Jules Breton (1827), and Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060). After him are Charlotte of Albret (1480), Blanche of Bourbon (1339), Gersonides (1288), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), La Goulue (1866), and Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 12. Before him are 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), and Jean Chardin (1643). After him are René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), René Caillié (1799), Sophie Blanchard (1778), and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605).

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