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René Louiche Desfontaines

1750 - 1833

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René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist. Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Louiche Desfontaines has received more than 31,883 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). René Louiche Desfontaines is the 278th most popular biologist (up from 289th in 2019), the 2,317th most popular biography from France (up from 2,490th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 278 out of 1,097. Before him are Peter Forsskål, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Jérôme Lejeune, Jack W. Szostak, John Maynard Smith, and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier. After him are George Bentham, Salim Ali, Wilhelm Peters, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, David Baltimore, and Johann Georg Christian Lehmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 22. Before him are Sheikh Mansur, Henri Grégoire, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Princess Louise of Denmark, and Fabre d'Églantine. After him are Jacques-François Menou, Bathilde d'Orléans, Túpac Katari, Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden, Yazid of Morocco, and Hugo Kołłątaj. Among people deceased in 1833, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 20. Before him are Pierre André Latreille, Abbas Mirza, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Adamantios Korais, Edmund Kean, and Duke Alexander of Württemberg. After him are Rahel Varnhagen, Antoni Radziwiłł, Ferdinand Hérold, Nannette Streicher, Fausto Elhuyar, and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 2,317 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755), Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905), François Faber (1887), Petronilla of Aquitaine (1125), Henri Duparc (1848), and Catherine Breillat (1948). After him are Henry Beaufort (1374), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Alain Connes (1947), Louison Bobet (1925), Jean de Chelles (1200), and Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria (1374).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 32. Before him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Pierre Belon (1517), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756). After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Johann Hermann (1738), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Charles Plumier (1646), and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801).

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