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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

1802 - 1861

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Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, OP (French: [lakɔʁdɛʁ]; 12 May 1802 – 21 November 1861), often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French Catholic priest, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France. Lacordaire was reputed to be the greatest pulpit orator of the nineteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire is the 2,605th most popular writer (down from 2,270th in 2019), the 2,848th most popular biography from France (down from 2,542nd in 2019) and the 362nd most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ranks 2,605 out of 7,302Before him are Timotheus of Miletus, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, André Salmon, Isaac Casaubon, Jorge Guillén, and Cornelia Funke. After him are Ottavio Rinuccini, Mir Taqi Mir, D. B. Weiss, Polemon I of Pontus, Giulio Angioni, and Michael Grant.

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Among people born in 1802, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ranks 35Before him are Arnold Ruge, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Mariano Arista, Adolphe Nourrit, and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. After him are Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Cesare Pugni, Louis Niedermeyer, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Niccolò Tommaseo, and Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein. Among people deceased in 1861, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ranks 33Before him are Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin, Teréz Brunszvik, Karol Lipiński, Edward Dickinson Baker, and Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov. After him are John Stevens Henslow, Joachim Lelewel, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Pierre Berthier, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ranks 2,848 out of 6,770Before him are Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555), Georges Leclanché (1836), André Salmon (1881), Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (1764), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), and Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768). After him are François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616), Julie d'Aubigny (1670), Ousmane Dembélé (1997), Anne Dacier (1645), Alix, Duchess of Brittany (1200), and Jules Simon (1814).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ranks 362Before him are Théophile de Viau (1590), Maurice Joly (1829), Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732), Jean Raspail (1925), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), and André Salmon (1881). After him are Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Georges Ohnet (1848), Sylvain Maréchal (1750), Henri Desgrange (1865), Marcel Prévost (1862), and Louise Colet (1810).