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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 78,829 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Poivre is the 296th most popular explorer (down from 252nd in 2019), the 3,342nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,848th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Pierre Poivre ranks 296 out of 405Before him are Sebastián Vizcaíno, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Alexander Gordon Laing, Gonçalo Velho Cabral, Bertrand Piccard, and Meriwether Lewis. After him are Albert von Le Coq, Knut Haugland, Thekla Resvoll, Theodor Kotschy, Sverre Hassel, and Otto Finsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1719, Pierre Poivre ranks 13Before him are Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Jacques Cazotte, Gottfried Achenwall, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda, and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. After him are Christian Mayer, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, Thomas Gage, Michel-Jean Sedaine, Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim. Among people deceased in 1786, Pierre Poivre ranks 16Before him are Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, John Byron, Thomas Wright, and Princess Amelia of Great Britain. After him are Jean-Étienne Guettard, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Nathanael Greene, Gaspar de Portolá, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, and William Duesbury.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Poivre ranks 3,342 out of 6,011Before him are Louis Majorelle (1859), Sylvain Wiltord (1974), Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924), Émile Mâle (1862), Michèle Arnaud (1919), and Michel Hazanavicius (1967). After him are Pierre Mondy (1925), Henri Dupuy de Lôme (1816), Paul Déroulède (1846), Armand Salacrou (1899), Jacques Tardi (1946), and Marc Levy (1961).

Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Pierre Poivre ranks 28Before him are Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Francis Garnier (1839), Nicolas Baudin (1754), and Freya Stark (1893). After him are Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), Henri Duveyrier (1840), Étienne Brûlé (1592), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Jacques Labillardière (1755), and Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755).