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François l'Olonnais

1635 - 1669

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Jean-David Nau (pronounced [ʒɑ̃ david no]) (c. 1630 – c. 1669), better known as François l'Olonnais (pronounced [fʁɑ̃swa lolɔnɛ]) (also l'Olonnois, Lolonois and Lolona), was a French pirate active in the Caribbean during the 1660s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François l'Olonnais is the 14th most popular pirate (down from 10th in 2019), the 1,034th most popular biography from France (down from 779th in 2019) and the most popular French Pirate.

François l'Olonnais was a French pirate who raided the Spanish in the Caribbean. He is most famous for being one of the first pirates to raid Panama City.

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Among PIRATES

Among pirates, François l'Olonnais ranks 14 out of 29. Before him are Anne Bonny, D. B. Cooper, Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, William Kidd, and Henry Every. After him are Sextus Pompey, Benjamin Hornigold, Jan Janszoon, Stede Bonnet, Charles Vane, and Piet Pieterszoon Hein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1635, François l'Olonnais ranks 7. Before him are Robert Hooke, Henry Morgan, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Johann Joachim Becher, Philipp Spener, and Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha. After him are Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Zanabazar, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, Philippe Quinault, and Frans van Mieris the Elder. Among people deceased in 1669, François l'Olonnais ranks 5. Before him are Rembrandt, Pope Clement IX, Henrietta Maria of France, and Pietro da Cortona. After him are Antonio Cesti, Maria Miloslavskaya, Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Oboi, Arnold Geulincx, Gaspar de Crayer, and François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort.

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In France

Among people born in France, François l'Olonnais ranks 1,034 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (1753), René Just Haüy (1743), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Thomas Couture (1815), Flora Tristan (1803), and Laura de Noves (1310). After him are Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763), Albert Roussel (1869), Guillaume Brune (1763), and Sigebert II (602).

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Among PIRATES In France

Among pirates born in France, François l'Olonnais ranks 1. 

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