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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 397,654 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Tavernier is the 169th most popular explorer (up from 224th in 2019), the 2,132nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,592nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 169 out of 405. Before him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Lancelotto Malocello, Matthew Flinders, Vasily Tatishchev, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, and Jim Bridger. After him are Luís Vaz de Torres, Cornelis de Houtman, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Lincoln Ellsworth, Gustav Nachtigal, and James Weddell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1605, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 14. Before him are Adriaen Brouwer, Ayşe Sultan, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, Semyon Dezhnev, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Thomas Browne. After him are Simon Dach, Zhu Yuyue, Antonio Bertali, Ismaël Bullialdus, and Brynjólfur Sveinsson. Among people deceased in 1689, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 12. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Thomas Sydenham, Aphra Behn, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, and Pjetër Bogdani. After him are Khushal Khattak, Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Princess Louise of Savoy, and Song Si-yeol.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 2,132 out of 6,011. Before him are Julien Gracq (1910), Philippe Quinault (1635), Hervé (1825), Jean Delannoy (1908), Leslie Caron (1931), and Marie Elisabeth of France (1572). After him are Edgard Varèse (1883), Philippe Garrel (1948), Guibert of Nogent (1055), Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755), Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725), and Roger Peyrefitte (1907).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 16. Before him are Jean de Béthencourt (1362), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Chardin (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Sophie Blanchard (1778), and Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734). After him are Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), René Caillié (1799), and Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867).

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