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Louis de Freycinet

1779 - 1841

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Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (7 August 1779 – 18 August 1841) was a French Navy officer. He circumnavigated the Earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis de Freycinet is the 341st most popular explorer (down from 330th in 2019), the 3,792nd most popular biography from France and the 32nd most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Louis de Freycinet ranks 341 out of 498. Before him are Irina Solovyova, Khariton Laptev, Pascual de Andagoya, Martim Afonso de Sousa, Meriwether Lewis, and Georg August Wallin. After him are Alexander Gordon Laing, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Yuri Lisyansky, Hugh Clapperton, Sebastián Vizcaíno, and Domingo Martínez de Irala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Louis de Freycinet ranks 27. Before him are Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, Jean Coralli, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Adam Müller, Francis Scott Key, and Johann Schweigger. After him are Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Filippo Paulucci, Washington Allston, Joel Roberts Poinsett, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, and Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough. Among people deceased in 1841, Louis de Freycinet ranks 34. Before him are Franz Xaver von Baader, Agustín Gamarra, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Bernhard Romberg, Peter Andreas Heiberg, and Alessandro Rolla. After him are Ignaz von Seyfried, Luis Eduardo Pérez, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, David Don, and Alexander Burnes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis de Freycinet ranks 3,792 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Delpech (1946), Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867), Gabrielle Wittkop (1920), Dominique Fernandez (1929), Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646), and Louis Diémer (1843). After him are Serge Lang (1927), Gaston Gallimard (1881), Michèle Alliot-Marie (1946), Joseph Daul (1947), Julie Vlasto (1903), and Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Louis de Freycinet ranks 32. Before him are André Thevet (1516), Pierre Poivre (1719), Freya Stark (1893), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Jacques Labillardière (1755), and Nicolas Baudin (1754). After him are Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), Henri Duveyrier (1840), Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798), Étienne Brûlé (1592), and Louis-Gustave Binger (1856).

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