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Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais

1796 - 1840

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Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795 – December 1840) was a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais has received more than 150,453 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais is the 44th most popular chess player (up from 45th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Réunion (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais ranks 44 out of 461. Before him are Legall de Kermeur, Efim Bogoljubov, Howard Staunton, László Szabó, Svetozar Gligorić, and Yuri Averbakh. After him are Alessandro Salvio, Frank Marshall, Andor Lilienthal, Rudolf Spielmann, Joseph Henry Blackburne, and Milan Vidmar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais ranks 17. Before him are Philipp Franz von Siebold, Carl Loewe, Ang Duong, James Bowie, Giovanni Pacini, and Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Asher Brown Durand, August von Platen-Hallermünde, and François Mignet. Among people deceased in 1840, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais ranks 23. Before him are Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Carl Ludvig Engel, Anne Lister, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Beau Brummell, and Francisco de Paula Santander. After him are Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Marcellin Champagnat, John Cockerill, and Karl Otfried Müller.

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In Réunion

Among people born in Réunion, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais ranks 6 out of 16. Before him are Michel Houellebecq (1956), Roland Garros (1888), Ambroise Vollard (1866), Leconte de Lisle (1818), and Raymond Barre (1924). After him are Dimitri Payet (1987), Évariste de Parny (1753), Edmond Albius (1829), Jackson Richardson (1969), Daniel Narcisse (1979), and Florent Sinama Pongolle (1984).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Réunion

Among chess players born in Réunion, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais ranks 1. 

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