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Pierre-Paul Riquet

1609 - 1680

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Pierre-Paul Riquet, Baron de Bonrepos (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ pɔl ʁikɛ]; 29 June 1609 (some sources say 1604) – 4 October 1680) was the engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Paul Riquet is the 184th most popular engineer (down from 171st in 2019), the 3,252nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,029th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pierre-Paul Riquet ranks 184 out of 389. Before him are Gérard Larrousse, John Smeaton, Ma Jun, Kerim Kerimov, Gotthilf Hagen, and Pierre Charles L'Enfant. After him are Kelly Johnson, Agustín de Betancourt, Genichi Taguchi, Eduard Totleben, Louis Dollo, and Jorge Chávez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1609, Pierre-Paul Riquet ranks 16. Before him are Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, Hanzade Sultan, Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Kâtip Çelebi, Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, and Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat. After him are Paul Fleming, Jean Rotrou, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Gerrard Winstanley, Robert Moray, and John Suckling. Among people deceased in 1680, Pierre-Paul Riquet ranks 30. Before him are Joachim Neander, Li Yu, Yun Hyu, Peter Lely, Frans Post, and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. After him are Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Marco Uccellini, Symeon of Polotsk, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, and Wang Shimin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Paul Riquet ranks 3,252 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Queuille (1884), René Duguay-Trouin (1673), Régine Pernoud (1909), Princess Françoise of Orléans (1902), Francis Ponge (1899), and Hippolyte Bayard (1801). After him are Gérard Darmon (1948), Arnaud Denjoy (1884), Sabine Azéma (1949), J. F. Oberlin (1740), Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607), and Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Pierre-Paul Riquet ranks 26. Before him are Pierre Berthier (1782), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Gérard Larrousse (1940), and Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754). After him are Louis Dollo (1857), Jorge Chávez (1887), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Philippe LeBon (1767), and Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798).

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