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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

1605 - 1689

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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier has received more than 434,132 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier is the 188th most popular explorer (down from 168th in 2019), the 2,306th most popular biography from France (down from 2,125th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 188 out of 498. Before him are Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, William Parry, Fernão do Pó, René Caillié, Sophie Blanchard, and Nikolai Rezanov. After him are Aleksandra Potanina, Jimmie Angel, Alexander Mackenzie, Bartolomeu Perestrello, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, and Olivier van Noort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1605, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 14. Before him are Adriaen Brouwer, Ayşe Sultan, Semyon Dezhnev, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, Thomas Browne, and George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Simon Dach, Zhu Yuyue, Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Ferenc Wesselényi, Ismaël Bullialdus, and Antonio Bertali. Among people deceased in 1689, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 8. Before him are Christina, Queen of Sweden, Marie Louise d’Orléans, Aşub Sultan, Sambhaji, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, and Khushal Khattak. After him are Aphra Behn, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Thomas Sydenham, Pjetër Bogdani, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 2,306 out of 6,770. Before him are Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Julien Benda (1867), Pierre de Castelnau (1170), Christian-Jaque (1904), Ginette Neveu (1919), and Claude Alexandre de Bonneval (1675). After him are François Certain de Canrobert (1809), François Hotman (1524), Félix Ziem (1821), Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755), Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905), and François Faber (1887).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 18. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), René Caillié (1799), and Sophie Blanchard (1778). After him are Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), André Thevet (1516), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724).

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