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Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux

1737 - 1793

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Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, chevalier d'Entrecasteaux (French: [dɑ̃tʁ(ə)kasto]; 8 November 1737 – 21 July 1793) was a French Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Isle de France from 1787 to 1789. He is best known for his exploration of the Australian coast in 1792 while searching for Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux is the 168th most popular explorer (up from 252nd in 2019), the 2,041st most popular biography from France (up from 3,018th in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux ranks 168 out of 498. Before him are Gaspar de Portolá, Enrique of Malacca, Otto Sverdrup, Emin Pasha, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Fernão do Pó. After him are Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Paulo da Gama, Gaspar de Lemos, and Gustav Nachtigal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux ranks 17. Before him are Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Louise of France, Tokugawa Ieharu, Morten Thrane Brünnich, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, and Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After him are Princess Augusta of Great Britain, John Hancock, Jacob Philipp Hackert, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne. Among people deceased in 1793, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux ranks 24. Before him are William Aiton, Timur Shah Durrani, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Antoine Barnave, and Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Jacques Cathelineau, Fletcher Christian, John Hunter, John Hancock, Joannicius III of Constantinople, and Pietro Nardini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux ranks 2,041 out of 6,770. Before him are François Faber (1887), François Lemoyne (1688), Dominique Venner (1935), Henri Gouraud (1867), Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768), and René Louiche Desfontaines (1750). After him are François Girardon (1628), François Coppée (1842), Alain Connes (1947), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Claude Garamond (1499), and Marie Elisabeth of France (1572).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux ranks 14. Before him are Jeanne Baret (1740), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), and Jean Chardin (1643). After him are Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), and Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734).

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