MOUNTAINEER

Jacques Balmat

1762 - 1834

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Jacques Balmat (French pronunciation: [ʒak balma]), called Balmat du Mont Blanc (1762–1834) was a mountaineer, a Savoyard mountain guide, born in the Chamonix valley in Savoy. He is known for the first ascent of Mont Blanc with physician Michel-Gabriel Paccard on 8 August 1786 . Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Balmat is the 11th most popular mountaineer, the 1,523rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,398th in 2019) and the most popular French Mountaineer.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Jacques Balmat ranks 11 out of 56. Before him are Andrew Irvine, Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, George Mallory, Wanda Rutkiewicz, and Jerzy Kukuczka. After him are Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Edward Whymper, Hermann Buhl, Maurice Herzog, Walter Bonatti, and Achille Compagnoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Jacques Balmat ranks 10. Before him are André Chénier, Pierre André Latreille, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, and Theroigne de Mericourt. After him are Gia Long, Spencer Perceval, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, James Hoban, and Anton Bernolák. Among people deceased in 1834, Jacques Balmat ranks 14. Before him are François-Adrien Boieldieu, Alois Senefelder, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Karl Ludwig Harding, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and William Carey. After him are Husein Gradaščević, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, William Wirt, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Balmat ranks 1,523 out of 6,770. Before him are Adalbert of Magdeburg (910), Fabien Barthez (1971), Adela of Normandy (1065), Henri Murger (1822), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875). After him are Emma Watson (1990), Yolanda of Courtenay (1197), Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Marie de Rohan (1600), and Alexandre de Rhodes (1591).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In France

Among mountaineers born in France, Jacques Balmat ranks 1. After him are Maurice Herzog (1919), Alain Robert (1962), and Lionel Terray (1921).

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