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Jeanne Baret

1740 - 1807

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Jeanne Baret ([ʒan ba.ʁɛ]; 27 July 1740 – 5 August 1807) is recognised as the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe, which she did via maritime transport. A key part of her journey was as a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766–1769. Jeanne Baret joined the expedition disguised as a man, calling herself Jean Baret. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeanne Baret has received more than 506,551 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jeanne Baret is the 76th most popular explorer (up from 84th in 2019), the 946th most popular biography from France (up from 1,078th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Explorer.

Jeanne Baret was a French explorer and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jeanne Baret ranks 76 out of 498. Before her are Alonso de Ojeda, Willem Schouten, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Richard Francis Burton, Hernando de Soto, and William Dampier. After her are Ármin Vámbéry, Diego Columbus, Lope de Aguirre, Willem Janszoon, Stepan Makarov, and Juan Díaz de Solís.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Jeanne Baret ranks 7. Before her are Marquis de Sade, Ivan VI of Russia, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Isabelle de Charrière, and Horace Bénédict de Saussure. After her are Johann van Beethoven, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Among people deceased in 1807, Jeanne Baret ranks 5. Before her are Angelica Kauffman, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Jérôme Lalande, and Magtymguly Pyragy. After her are Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Henry Benedict Stuart, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, George Atwood, John Newton, and Johannes Nikolaus Tetens.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jeanne Baret ranks 946 out of 6,770. Before her are Maria Malibran (1808), Carole Bouquet (1957), Jacques Perrin (1941), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401), and Martin Bucer (1491). After her are Charles Maurras (1868), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Horace Vernet (1789), Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845), Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1709), and Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jeanne Baret ranks 8. Before her are Jacques Cousteau (1910), Pytheas (-380), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Samuel de Champlain (1567), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), and Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790). After her are Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean Chardin (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), and Henri Mouhot (1826).

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