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Marie-Louise Lachapelle

1769 - 1821

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Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1 January 1769 – 4 October 1821) was a French midwife, head of obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu, the oldest hospital in Paris. She published textbooks about women's bodies, gynecology, and obstetrics. She argued against forceps deliveries and wrote Pratique des accouchements, long a standard obstetric text, which promoted natural deliveries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie-Louise Lachapelle has received more than 25,367 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Marie-Louise Lachapelle is the 16,190th most popular politician (down from 13,532nd in 2019), the 4,963rd most popular biography from France (down from 4,074th in 2019) and the 896th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Marie-Louise Lachapelle ranks 16,190 out of 19,576. Before her are Harry Schwarz, Kinga Göncz, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Bernd Mayländer, Michael Pedersen Friis, and Francisco Javier Zaldúa. After her are Porter Goss, Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual, Lopo do Nascimento, William H. Webster, Erwin Huber, and Jim Ross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Marie-Louise Lachapelle ranks 49. Before her are Jane Marcet, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Mahmud Shah Durrani, DeWitt Clinton, Amelia Opie, and Gaetano Savi.  Among people deceased in 1821, Marie-Louise Lachapelle ranks 32. Before her are Elizabeth Ann Seton, Félix de Azara, Martín Miguel de Güemes, Georg Friedrich von Martens, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, and Carlo Porta. After her are John Hunter, John Crome, Elizabeth Inchbald, and John Rennie the Elder.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie-Louise Lachapelle ranks 4,963 out of 6,770. Before her are Albert Corey (1878), Serhou Guirassy (1996), Jean-Pierre Haigneré (1948), Gilbert Bozon (1935), Raymond Flacher (1903), and Gérald Passi (1964). After her are César Ruminski (1924), Ernest Schultz (1931), Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1928), Jean Lucas (1917), Paul Bontemps (1902), and Gilles Panizzi (1965).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Marie-Louise Lachapelle ranks 896. Before her are Nicolas Hulot (1955), Pierre Joxe (1934), Florence Devouard (1968), Xavier Darcos (1947), Jean-Louis Borloo (1951), and James Goldsmith (1933). After her are Benoît Hamon (1967), Christian Poncelet (1928), Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (1961), Monique Ohsan Bellepeau (1942), Henri Emmanuelli (1945), and Dominique Baudis (1947).

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