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Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

French priest and Catholic saint

1651 - 1719

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His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2024). Jean-Baptiste de La Salle is the 637th most popular religious figure (up from 640th in 2024), the 709th most popular biography from France (up from 743rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Religious Figure.

Jean-Baptiste de la Salle was a French priest and educator who is most famous for founding the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

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Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ranks #709 among 7,658 people in Pantheon born in France, inside the top 10% of that group.

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Among Religious Figures

Among religious figures, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ranks 637 out of 3,189. Before him are Peter the Hermit, Theophanes the Confessor, Pope Theodore I, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Clotilde, and Father Damien. After him are Seraphim of Sarov, Apollos, Thomas Becket, Billy Graham, Columbanus, and Hind bint Utbah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1651, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ranks 2. Before him is Margaret Theresa of Spain. After him are François Fénelon, William Dampier, Natalya Naryshkina, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Engelbert Kaempfer, Madame d'Aulnoy, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Charles Eugène de Croÿ, and Louis Antoine de Noailles. Among people deceased in 1719, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ranks 2. Before him is Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon. After him are John Flamsteed, Shah Jahan II, Michel Rolle, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Benjamin Hornigold, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp, Joseph Addison, and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ranks 709 out of 7,658. Before him are Pierre Augereau (1757), Georges Perec (1936), Clotilde (475), Elisa Bonaparte (1777), Antoine François Prévost (1697), and Nicole Oresme (1323). After him are Louis I, Duke of Anjou (1339), François Fénelon (1651), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), Alfred de Musset (1810), Jules Grévy (1807), and René Lacoste (1904).

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Among Religious Figures In France

Among religious figures born in France, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle ranks 39. Before him are Charles de Foucauld (1858), Luigi Lucheni (1873), Ansgar (801), Rashi (1040), Peter the Hermit (1050), and Clotilde (475). After him are Antipope Clement VII (1342), Peter Waldo (1140), Louis de Montfort (1673), Jean Meslier (1664), Catherine Labouré (1806), and Ivo of Kermartin (1253).

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