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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 29,053 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). René Louiche Desfontaines is the 290th most popular biologist (down from 254th in 2019), the 2,498th most popular biography from France (down from 2,214th in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 290 out of 841. Before him are Vladimir Demikhov, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Wilhelm Peters, Nikolai Severtzov, John Hughlings Jackson, and Othenio Abel. After him are Josif Pančić, Carol W. Greider, John Gould, Joel Asaph Allen, Jack W. Szostak, and Phillip Allen Sharp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 21. Before him are Ami Argand, Adam Afzelius, Princess Louise of Denmark, Henri Grégoire, Lorenzo Mascheroni, and Jacques-François Menou. After him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Fabre d'Églantine, Bathilde d'Orléans, Sylvain Maréchal, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, and Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland. Among people deceased in 1833, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 23. Before him are Edmund Kean, Adamantios Korais, Ferdinand Hérold, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Antoni Radziwiłł, and Rahel Varnhagen. After him are Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Banastre Tarleton, Nannette Streicher, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Fausto Elhuyar, and Ivan Martinov.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 2,498 out of 6,011. Before him are Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie (1718), Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756), Claude Rich (1929), Jacques Pills (1906), Jean Raspail (1925), and Jean Fernel (1497). After him are François-André Vincent (1746), Paschasius Radbertus (792), Michel Gondry (1963), Chilperic II of Burgundy (450), Pierre Leroux (1797), and Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 38. Before him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Johann Hermann (1738), René Lesson (1794), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Alain Bombard (1924), and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801). After him are Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Charles Plumier (1646), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Philibert Commerson (1727), Charles Chamberland (1851), and Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723).

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