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Joseph Fesch

1763 - 1839

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Joseph Cardinal Fesch, Prince of the Empire (3 January 1763 – 13 May 1839) was a French priest and diplomat, who was the maternal half-uncle of Napoleon Bonaparte (half-brother of Napoleon's mother Laetitia). In the wake of his nephew, he became Archbishop of Lyon and cardinal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Fesch has received more than 136,403 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Joseph Fesch is the 407th most popular nobleman (up from 415th in 2019), the 1,878th most popular biography from France (up from 2,023rd in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Joseph Fesch ranks 407 out of 842Before him are Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, and Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont. After him are Philip II, Count of Nevers, José, Prince of Brazil, Thierry, Count of Flanders, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Margaret, Maid of Norway, and Otto-William, Count of Burgundy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Joseph Fesch ranks 16Before him are Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Kobayashi Issa, Guillaume Brune, Xavier de Maistre, Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden, and Étienne Méhul. After him are Simon Mayr, Franz Danzi, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Domenico Dragonetti, and François-Joseph Talma. Among people deceased in 1839, Joseph Fesch ranks 13Before him are Ranjit Singh, William Smith, Princess Marie of Orléans, Pehr Henrik Ling, Charlotte Bonaparte, and Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia. After him are Ferdinando Paer, Lord William Bentinck, Joseph Anton Koch, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Aloysia Weber, and Mikhail Speransky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Fesch ranks 1,878 out of 6,011Before him are Guy Mollet (1905), Yves Rocher (1930), Hervé Villechaize (1943), Félix Gouin (1884), Philip of Milly (1120), and Youri Djorkaeff (1968). After him are Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano (1721), Philip II, Count of Nevers (1389), Pierre Beauchamp (1631), Robert Brasillach (1909), Pierre Janssen (1824), and Peter the Venerable (1092).

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