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Pierre-François Bouchard

1771 - 1822

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Pierre-François Bouchard (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa buʃaʁ]; 29 April 1771, Orgelet – 5 August 1822, Givet) was an officer in the French Army of engineers. He is most famous for discovering the Rosetta Stone, an important archaeological find that allowed Ancient Egyptian writing to be understood for the first time in over a millennium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-François Bouchard is the 283rd most popular engineer (down from 282nd in 2019), the 4,420th most popular biography from France (down from 4,418th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pierre-François Bouchard ranks 283 out of 389. Before him are Arkhip Lyulka, Émile Lemoine, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Rudy Van Gelder, Boris Chertok, and Oskar von Miller. After him are Eugene Polley, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Joseph Minard, Christopher Cockerell, Wilhelm Nusselt, and Fulgence Bienvenüe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Pierre-François Bouchard ranks 45. Before him are Jacob Sturm, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, George Bass, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Heinrich Zschokke, and Charles Brockden Brown. After him are Jean Broc, Thomas Wedgwood, Germanos III of Old Patras, Justo Figuerola, and Dorothy Wordsworth. Among people deceased in 1822, Pierre-François Bouchard ranks 36. Before him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Frei Galvão, Uesugi Harunori, Hồ Xuân Hương, James Sowerby, and Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti. After him are Rudolph Schadow, William Pinkney, and Jared Ingersoll.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-François Bouchard ranks 4,420 out of 6,770. Before him are Adelaide of Normandy (1026), Jakob Abbadie (1654), Viktor Lazlo (1960), Valentin Conrart (1603), Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618), and Colette Marchand (1925). After him are Camille Mandrillon (1891), Alphonso, Earl of Chester (1273), Gilbert Bougnol (1866), Simone Segouin (1925), Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), and Jean Langlais (1907).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Pierre-François Bouchard ranks 54. Before him are Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), Marcel Deprez (1843), Ernest Goüin (1815), Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801), Jean-Augustin Barral (1819), and Émile Lemoine (1840). After him are Charles Joseph Minard (1781), Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852), Marc René, marquis de Montalembert (1714), Charles Combes (1801), Louis Armand (1905), and Octave Chanute (1832).

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