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Pierre Poivre

1719 - 1786

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Pierre Poivre (23 August 1719 – 6 January 1786) was an 18th-century horticulturist and botanist. He was born in Lyon, France. He was a missionary to East Asia, intendant of French colonial islands in the Indian Ocean, and wearer of the cordon of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Poivre has received more than 87,422 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Pierre Poivre is the 257th most popular explorer (up from 295th in 2019), the 3,062nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,328th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Pierre Poivre ranks 257 out of 498. Before him are Thorvald Eiriksson, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Snorri Thorfinnsson, Carl Anton Larsen, Hjalmar Johansen, and William Smith. After him are Jens Munk, Carl Peters, Oscar Wisting, Francis Garnier, Jim Bridger, and Anthony Jenkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1719, Pierre Poivre ranks 13. Before him are Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Gottfried Achenwall, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, and Christian Mayer. After him are Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Thomas Gage, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda, Michel-Jean Sedaine, and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani. Among people deceased in 1786, Pierre Poivre ranks 13. Before him are Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, and Hans Joachim von Zieten. After him are Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Bernardo de Gálvez, Thomas Wright, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Nathanael Greene, and Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Poivre ranks 3,062 out of 6,770. Before him are Christian Kramp (1760), Félix Gaillard (1919), Édouard Le Roy (1870), Georges Lautner (1926), Vernon Dobtcheff (1934), and Félix Bracquemond (1833). After him are Jacques Tardi (1946), Riyad Mahrez (1991), François-Auguste Biard (1799), Pierre Gamarra (1919), Georges Marchais (1920), and Princess Marie of Denmark (1976).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Pierre Poivre ranks 27. Before him are Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), Nicolas Baudin (1754), and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737). After him are Francis Garnier (1839), Freya Stark (1893), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), and Henri Duveyrier (1840).

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