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Auguste Vaillant

1861 - 1894

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Auguste Vaillant (French pronunciation: [ɔɡyst vajɑ̃]; 27 December 1861 – 5 February 1894) was a French anarchist known for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1893. The French government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates ("villainous laws"), three French laws passed from 1893 to 1894 which restricted freedom of the press. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Vaillant is the 11,134th most popular politician (down from 10,067th in 2019), the 3,221st most popular biography from France (down from 3,007th in 2019) and the 725th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Auguste Vaillant ranks 11,134 out of 19,576. Before him are Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Solomon II of Imereti, Al-Zafir, Antiochus Hierax, and Ramón Franco. After him are Salam Fayyad, William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, Celia Sánchez, and Andrey Razumovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Auguste Vaillant ranks 80. Before him are Kurt Hensel, Nasreddine Dinet, James Mark Baldwin, Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen, Charlie Soong, and Félix Fénéon. After him are Jacques-Émile Blanche, Motilal Nehru, Morgan Robertson, Frederick Jackson Turner, Curt von Bardeleben, and Lucien Simon. Among people deceased in 1894, Auguste Vaillant ranks 45. Before him are Theophan the Recluse, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Pavel Yablochkov, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Maria Deraismes, and Walter Pater. After him are Marietta Alboni, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Franjo Rački, Charles Laval, Gall, and Brian Houghton Hodgson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Vaillant ranks 3,221 out of 6,770. Before him are Freya Stark (1893), Henri Brocard (1845), Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724), and René Daumal (1908). After him are Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), François Marie Daudin (1776), Étienne Mattler (1905), Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861), Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), and Georges Marchais (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Auguste Vaillant ranks 725. Before him are Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678), Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (1766), Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (1010), Princess Anne of Orléans (1906), and Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719). After him are Georges Marchais (1920), Marie I, Countess of Boulogne (1136), Henri Queuille (1884), René Duguay-Trouin (1673), Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607), and Georges Leygues (1857).

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