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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier

1705 - 1786

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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (14 January 1705 – 1786) was a French sailor, explorer, and governor of the Mascarene Islands. 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 65,273 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier is the 149th most popular explorer (down from 137th in 2019), the 1,912th most popular biography from France (down from 1,687th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 149 out of 405. Before him are Alexander Mackenzie, Otto Sverdrup, Scylax of Caryanda, Gaspar Corte-Real, Vladimir Arsenyev, and Hans Staden. After him are John Sutter, Juan de Grijalva, Adrien de Gerlache, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Samuel Wallis, and Ahmad ibn Rustah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 6. Before him are Pope Clement XIV, Farinelli, Karim Khan Zand, Leopold Joseph von Daun, and Charles-André van Loo. After him are David Hartley, Jacques-François Blondel, Peter Artedi, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, and Philipp Stamma. Among people deceased in 1786, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 7. Before him are Frederick the Great, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Moses Mendelssohn, Maurice Benyovszky, Peter III of Portugal, and Franz Benda. After him are Antonio Sacchini, Eva Ekeblad, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, and John Byron.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 1,912 out of 6,011. Before him are François Faber (1887), Constant Troyon (1810), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Louis-François de Boufflers (1644), Phillipe de Plessis (1165), and Florent Schmitt (1870). After him are Charles, Duke of Guise (1571), Patrick Dewaere (1947), Jeanne Lanvin (1867), Jacques Dutronc (1943), Edmond François Valentin About (1828), and Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 13. Before him are Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), and Jean Chardin (1643). After him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), and Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510).

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