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Louis Antoine de Bougainville

1729 - 1811

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Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (, US also , French: [lwi ɑ̃twan də buɡɛ̃vil]; 12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in the Seven Years' War in North America and the American Revolutionary War against Britain. 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 368,801 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Louis Antoine de Bougainville is the 48th most popular explorer (down from 38th in 2019), the 669th most popular biography from France (down from 435th 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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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 48 out of 405. Before him are Ingólfr Arnarson, Sven Hedin, William Baffin, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Giovanni da Verrazzano, and Diego de Almagro. After him are Jacob Roggeveen, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Richard Francis Burton, William Adams, Hugh Glass, and Samuel de Champlain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 7. Before him are Catherine the Great, Edmund Burke, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Louis, Dauphin of France, Moses Mendelssohn, and Lazzaro Spallanzani. After him are Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Antonio Soler, Johann Daniel Titius, Giuseppe Sarti, and Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg. 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, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Ignacio Allende, Nevil Maskelyne, Marie-Joseph Chénier, and Christoph Friedrich Nicolai.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 669 out of 6,011. Before him are Salome Zourabichvili (1952), Louis de Montfort (1673), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Jean Nicot (1530), Joan II of Navarre (1311), and Robert Curthose (1054). After him are Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Jeanne Hébuterne (1898), William Longsword (893), Julie Clary (1771), Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837), and Paul Mauriat (1925).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ranks 4. Before him are Jacques Cousteau (1910), Jacques Cartier (1491), 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), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), and Jean Chardin (1643).

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