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René Caillié

1799 - 1838

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Auguste René Caillié (French pronunciation: [ʁəne kaje]; 19 November 1799 – 17 May 1838) was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Caillié has received more than 128,777 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). René Caillié is the 185th most popular explorer (up from 216th in 2019), the 2,266th most popular biography from France (up from 2,563rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Explorer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.26

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  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, René Caillié ranks 185 out of 498. Before him are Hendrik Brouwer, Gerónimo de Aguilar, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, William Parry, and Fernão do Pó. After him are Sophie Blanchard, Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Aleksandra Potanina, Jimmie Angel, and Alexander Mackenzie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, René Caillié ranks 20. Before him are Rodolphe Töpffer, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Vincenz Priessnitz, and Countess of Ségur. After him are Almeida Garrett, Ferenc Gyulay, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Jedediah Smith, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, and Duchess Marie of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1838, René Caillié ranks 15. Before him are Pierre Louis Dulong, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Ferdinand Ries, Bernhard Crusell, Hussein Dey, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel. After him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Heinrich Marx, José Bonifácio de Andrada, Black Hawk, Joseph Lancaster, and Frédéric Cuvier.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Caillié ranks 2,266 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Harel (1761), Jacques Massu (1908), Guy de Rothschild (1909), Alexandre Darracq (1855), Madeleine Béjart (1615), and Germain of Paris (496). After him are Joséphin Péladan (1858), Yann Tiersen (1970), Bernard Collomb (1930), Julien Gracq (1910), Roland Petit (1924), and Matthieu Ricard (1946).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, René Caillié ranks 16. Before him are Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean Chardin (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Henri Mouhot (1826), and Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757). After him are Sophie Blanchard (1778), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), André Thevet (1516), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), and Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734).

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