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Jacques Labillardière

1755 - 1834

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Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (28 October 1755 – 8 January 1834) was a French biologist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition. He published a popular account of his journey and produced the first Flora on the region. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Labillardière is the 307th most popular explorer (up from 398th in 2019), the 3,420th most popular biography from France (up from 4,378th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jacques Labillardière ranks 307 out of 498Before him are John Byron, Lady Hester Stanhope, Ippolito Rosellini, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Philip Carteret, and John McDouall Stuart. After him are Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, Jens Munk, Nicolas Baudin, Wilfred Thesiger, Masabumi Hosono, and Nikolai Spathari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Jacques Labillardière ranks 39Before him are Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Gaspard de Prony, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, and Sarah Siddons. After him are Dorothea Viehmann, Marc-Antoine Parseval, Stanisław Staszic, Nicolas Fuss, Narayan Rao, and Thomas Hardwicke. Among people deceased in 1834, Jacques Labillardière ranks 31Before him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Robert Morrison, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Elisa Radziwiłł, Giovanni Aldini, and Jean Louis Marie Poiret. After him are Charles Lamb, Filip Višnjić, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Joseph Bové, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, and Thomas Telford.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Labillardière ranks 3,420 out of 6,770Before him are Jacques Hamel (1930), François-Hubert Drouais (1727), Albert Batteux (1919), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (1282), and Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780). After him are Gustave Le Gray (1820), Antoine Furetière (1619), Roland Dumas (1922), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Louis Pergaud (1882), and Stéphane Peterhansel (1965).

Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jacques Labillardière ranks 30Before him are Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), André Thevet (1516), Pierre Poivre (1719), Freya Stark (1893), and Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755). After him are Nicolas Baudin (1754), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), Henri Duveyrier (1840), Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798), and Étienne Brûlé (1592).