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Nicolas-Jacques Conté

1755 - 1805

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Nicolas-Jacques Conté (French pronunciation: [nikɔla ʒak kɔ̃te]; 4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805) was a French inventor of the modern pencil. He was born at Saint-Céneri-près-Sées (now Aunou-sur-Orne) in Normandy and distinguished himself for his mechanical genius, which was of great avail to the French army in Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas-Jacques Conté has received more than 144,387 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas-Jacques Conté is the 1,069th most popular painter (down from 974th in 2019).

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nicolas-Jacques Conté ranks 1,069 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan Wildens, Davide Ghirlandaio, Joris Hoefnagel, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Joachim Beuckelaer, and Mykola Pymonenko. After him are Joaquín Torres-García, Barbara Kruger, Agnes Block, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Wilhelm Leibl, and Plautilla Nelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Nicolas-Jacques Conté ranks 28. Before him are Quatremère de Quincy, Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, John Flaxman, John Marshall, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, and Gaspard de Prony. After him are Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Gilbert Stuart, Fausto Elhuyar, Anacharsis Cloots, and Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. Among people deceased in 1805, Nicolas-Jacques Conté ranks 16. Before him are Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mihrişah Sultan, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Conrad Moench, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Pehr Osbeck. After him are Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, William Paley, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, and Ji Yun.

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