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René Duguay-Trouin

1673 - 1736

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René Trouin, Sieur du Gué, also known as René Duguay-Trouin (French pronunciation: [ʁəne dyɡɛ-tʁuɛ̃]; 10 June 1673 – 27 September 1736), was a French Navy officer and nobleman best known for his actions during the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 18th century. He had a brilliant privateering and naval career, eventually becoming Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King (vice admiral; French: Lieutenant-Général des armées navales du roi) in 1728, as well as a Commander in the Order of Saint-Louis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Duguay-Trouin has received more than 74,965 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). René Duguay-Trouin is the 9,709th most popular politician (down from 7,478th in 2019), the 2,901st most popular biography from France (down from 2,234th in 2019) and the 666th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 9,709 out of 19,576. Before him are Fredrik Reinfeldt, Ashikaga Yoshihide, Jack Lang, Chungsuk of Goryeo, Princess Olga Paley, and Zbigniew Religa. After him are Dmitry Peskov, Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Albert Zafy, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, and Ashot I of Iberia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1673, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 17. Before him are Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, Johann Conrad Dippel, Mirwais Hotak, and Claude Gillot. After him are Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg, Bernard Picart, George Graham, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, and James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope. Among people deceased in 1736, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 13. Before him are Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine, Filippo Juvarra, Theophan Prokopovich, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Louise Diane d'Orléans, and Caspar van Wittel. After him are Emanuele d'Astorga, António Manoel de Vilhena, and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 2,901 out of 6,770. Before him are Élie, duc Decazes (1780), Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), Ferdinand Zecca (1864), Mirra Alfassa (1878), Alain Corneau (1943), and Jack Lang (1939). After him are Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Daniel Buren (1938), Petrus Comestor (1100), Lupus Servatus (805), Djibril Cissé (1981), and Henri Pélissier (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 666. Before him are Henri Alekan (1909), Eugène Schneider (1805), Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (1060), Bernard Plantapilosa (841), Élie, duc Decazes (1780), and Jack Lang (1939). After him are Victor de Broglie (1785), Rainulf Drengot (1000), Amaury de Montfort (1192), Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1730), Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt (1746), and Maurice Rouvier (1842).

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