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Jules Dumont d'Urville

1790 - 1842

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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (French pronunciation: [ʒyl dymɔ̃ dyʁvil]; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jules Dumont d'Urville has received more than 245,280 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 45 in 2019). Jules Dumont d'Urville is the 74th most popular explorer (down from 62nd in 2019), the 956th most popular biography from France (down from 799th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Explorer.

Jules dumont d'urville is most famous for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 74 out of 405Before him are Diego Columbus, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Alonso de Ojeda, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Davy Crockett, and Willem Janszoon. After him are Calamity Jane, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Richard E. Byrd, Benjamin of Tudela, and Ármin Vámbéry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 8Before him are Leopold I of Belgium, Sunjo of Joseon, George Everest, August Ferdinand Möbius, John Tyler, and Alphonse de Lamartine. After him are Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, Robert Stirling, Adolph Diesterweg, and Leopold, Prince of Salerno. Among people deceased in 1842, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 7Before him are Stendhal, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Luigi Cherubini, Constanze Mozart, Bernardo O'Higgins, and Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans. After him are Clemens Brentano, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Dominique Jean Larrey, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Pierre Cambronne, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 956 out of 6,011Before him are Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), Thomas Couture (1815), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789), and André Michel Lwoff (1902). After him are Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Marie Laforêt (1939), Jean Anouilh (1910), Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654), Pierre Brice (1929), and Adela of Champagne (1140).

Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 7Before him are Jacques Cousteau (1910), Jacques Cartier (1491), Pytheas (-380), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Samuel de Champlain (1567), and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741). After him are Jeanne Baret (1740), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Chardin (1643), and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705).