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Jean Louis Marie Poiret

1755 - 1834

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Jean Louis Marie Poiret (11 June 1755 in Saint-Quentin – 7 April 1834 in Paris) was a French clergyman, botanist, and explorer. From 1785 to 1786, he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora. After the French Revolution, he became a professor of natural history at the Écoles Centrale of Aisne. The genus Poiretia of the legume family Fabaceae was named after him in 1807 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Louis Marie Poiret is the 294th most popular explorer (up from 364th in 2019), the 3,295th most popular biography from France (up from 4,136th in 2019) and the 29th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean Louis Marie Poiret ranks 294 out of 498. Before him are Jim Bridger, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Anthony Jenkinson, Eusebio Kino, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Wulfstan of Hedeby. After him are Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Grigory Potanin, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, Juan Pizarro, Pyotr Beketov, and Bertrand Piccard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Jean Louis Marie Poiret ranks 36. Before him are Robert Kerr, Fausto Elhuyar, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, and Gaspard de Prony. After him are Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Sarah Siddons, Jacques Labillardière, Dorothea Viehmann, Marc-Antoine Parseval, and Stanisław Staszic. Among people deceased in 1834, Jean Louis Marie Poiret ranks 30. Before him are David Douglas, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Robert Morrison, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Elisa Radziwiłł, and Giovanni Aldini. After him are Jacques Labillardière, Charles Lamb, Filip Višnjić, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Joseph Bové, and Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Louis Marie Poiret ranks 3,295 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Mark Meadows (1959), Nicolas Gombert (1495), and Maurice Larrouy (1872). After him are Albert I, Count of Namur (1000), Bernard Lama (1963), Louis Majorelle (1859), Léon Daudet (1867), Edward Poynter (1836), and Bernard Thévenet (1948).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean Louis Marie Poiret ranks 29. Before him are René Caillié (1799), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), André Thevet (1516), Pierre Poivre (1719), and Freya Stark (1893). After him are Jacques Labillardière (1755), Nicolas Baudin (1754), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), Henri Duveyrier (1840), and Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798).

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