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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier

1705 - 1786

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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (14 January 1705 – 1786) was a French explorer and colonial administrator of the Mascarene Islands to the east of Madagascar. He was orphaned at the age of seven and after being educated in Paris, he was sent to Saint Malo to study navigation. He became a lieutenant of the French East India Company in 1731. He succeeded in convincing his employer to provide him with two ships and send him on an exploration mission in the South Atlantic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier is the 129th most popular explorer (up from 138th in 2019), the 1,502nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,762nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 129 out of 498. Before him are Michael Rockefeller, Chris McCandless, George Vancouver, Alvise Cadamosto, Pedro de Mendoza, and Pánfilo de Narváez. After him are Juan de Grijalva, Sebastián de Belalcázar, Mary Kingsley, Frederick Cook, Andrés de Urdaneta, and Mikhail Lazarev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 5. Before him are Pope Clement XIV, Farinelli, Leopold Joseph von Daun, and Karim Khan Zand. After him are Charles-André van Loo, Jacques-François Blondel, David Hartley, Peter Artedi, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, and Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa. Among people deceased in 1786, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 7. Before him are Frederick the Great, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Moses Mendelssohn, Peter III of Portugal, Maurice Benyovszky, and Franz Benda. After him are John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Gaspar de Portolá, Tokugawa Ieharu, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, and Antonio Sacchini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 1,502 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737), Patrick Dewaere (1947), Chilperic of Aquitaine (600), Georges Bidault (1899), Édith Cresson (1934), and Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187). After him are Auguste Charlois (1864), Louis Paul Cailletet (1832), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), Eugène Atget (1857), Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697), and Philippe de Gaulle (1921).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier ranks 12. Before him are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643). After him are Jean Chardin (1643), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), and Sophie Blanchard (1778).

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