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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: [ɾəne dygɛj-tɾwɛ̃]; 10 June 1673 – 27 September 1736), was a French naval officer, nobleman, slave trader, and privateer best known for his career 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 70,306 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. René Duguay-Trouin is the 7,498th most popular politician (up from 7,930th in 2019), the 2,241st most popular biography from France (up from 2,408th in 2019) and the 540th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 7,498 out of 15,577Before him are Manuel I of Trebizond, Godepert, Alexander Yakovlev, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Maurice Couve de Murville, and Paulias Matane. After him are Časlav, Alexander of Tralles, Charles, Duke of Calabria, Sisenand, Ilir Meta, and István Dobi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1673, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 11Before him are Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, Alessandro Marcello, Rosalba Carriera, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, and Violante Beatrice of Bavaria. After him are Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Johann Conrad Dippel, Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg, and Mirwais Hotak. Among people deceased in 1736, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 10Before him are Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Caldara, Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine, Stephen Gray, Filippo Juvarra, and Louise Diane d'Orléans. After him are Theophan Prokopovich, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Caspar van Wittel, Emanuele d'Astorga, António Manoel de Vilhena, and Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Duguay-Trouin ranks 2,241 out of 6,011Before him are Louis Couperin (1626), Jacques Massu (1908), Jean-Marie Guyau (1854), Edward, Count of Savoy (1284), Louis I, Count of Blois (1172), and Maurice Couve de Murville (1907). After him are Paul Morand (1888), César Baldaccini (1921), Bixente Lizarazu (1969), Jean-Pierre Jarier (1946), Mamertus (401), and Jacques de Morgan (1857).

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