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François Laurent d'Arlandes

1742 - 1809

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François Laurent d'Arlandes (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa loʁɑ̃ lə vjø daʁlɑ̃d]; 1742 – 1 May 1809) was a French marquis, soldier and a pioneer of hot air ballooning. He and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. D'Arlandes was born in Anneyron in the Dauphiné. He met Joseph Montgolfier at the Jesuit college of Tournon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François Laurent d'Arlandes is the 114th most popular engineer (down from 112th in 2019), the 2,368th most popular biography from France (down from 2,228th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 114 out of 389. Before him are Álvaro del Portillo, Lu Ban, Mikhail Mil, Carlo Abarth, Pierre Clostermann, and Sergei Khrushchev. After him are Erich Topp, Eupalinos, Erik Dahlbergh, Henry Darcy, Borys Paton, and Alexander Cunningham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 15. Before him are Nicolas Leblanc, David Bushnell, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Dositej Obradović, and Pōmare I. After him are Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Ignaz von Born, Charlotte von Stein, Joseph Brant, Anders Jahan Retzius, and Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper. Among people deceased in 1809, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 15. Before him are Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Ueda Akinari, August Ludwig von Schlözer, Joseph-Marie Vien, Leopold Auenbrugger, and Matthew Boulton. After him are John Moore, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, Augustin Pajou, Ludwig von Cobenzl, and Anton Stamitz.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 2,368 out of 6,770. Before him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), Thomas Merton (1915), and Othon de la Roche (1200). After him are Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine (1608), Victor de Broglie (1785), Robert Surcouf (1773), Petronilla of Aquitaine (1125), François Habeneck (1781), and Émile Boutroux (1845).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, François Laurent d'Arlandes ranks 12. Before him are Marcel Dassault (1892), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Paul Cornu (1881), and André Courrèges (1923). After him are Henry Darcy (1803), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Alexandre Darracq (1855), Pierre-Émile Martin (1824), Georges Leclanché (1836), and Marc Seguin (1786).

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