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Louis Antoine de Bougainville

1729 - 1811

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Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French military officer, explorer and nobleman. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. Bougainville later gained fame for his expeditions, including a circumnavigation of the globe in a scientific expedition in 1763, the first recorded settlement on the Falkland Islands, and voyages into the Pacific Ocean. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Antoine de Bougainville has received more than 397,886 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Louis Antoine de Bougainville is the 48th most popular explorer, the 707th most popular biography from France (down from 668th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Explorer.

Louis Antoine de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer. He is most famous for his circumnavigation of the world in 1766-1769.

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  • 400k

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  • 65.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 48 out of 498. Before him are Richard E. Byrd, Frederick de Houtman, Sven Hedin, Zhang Qian, Diego de Almagro, and Jacob Roggeveen. After him are Robert Falcon Scott, Samuel de Champlain, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Ernest Shackleton, Diogo Cão, and William Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 7. Before him are Catherine the Great, Louis, Dauphin of France, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Edmund Burke, Moses Mendelssohn, and Lazzaro Spallanzani. After him are Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Antonio Soler, Johann Daniel Titius, Johann Reinhold Forster, and Giuseppe Sarti. Among people deceased in 1811, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 3. Before him are Heinrich von Kleist, and Peter Simon Pallas. After him are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Dositej Obradović, Jean Chalgrin, Eliza Poe, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Ignacio Allende, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and Nevil Maskelyne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 707 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Gamelin (1872), Pierre Bonnard (1867), Alexandre Millerand (1859), François Ravaillac (1578), Jacques Maritain (1882), and Jean Parisot de Valette (1494). After him are Rudolph of France (890), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), David Guetta (1967), Madame Roland (1754), Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (1490), and Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 4. Before him are Jacques Cartier (1491), Jacques Cousteau (1910), and Pytheas (-380). After him are Samuel de Champlain (1567), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean Chardin (1643), and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705).

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