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Prince Jean, Duke of Guise

1874 - 1940

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Jean d'Orléans (Jean Pierre Clément Marie; 4 September 1874 – 25 August 1940) was Orléanist pretender to the defunct French throne as Jean III. He used the courtesy title of Duke of Guise. He was the third son and youngest child of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840–1910), and grandson of Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans and great-grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. His mother was Princess Françoise of Orléans, daughter of François, Prince of Joinville and Princess Francisca of Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Jean, Duke of Guise is the 6,326th most popular politician (down from 5,411th in 2019), the 1,808th most popular biography from France (down from 1,645th in 2019) and the 438th most popular French Politician.

Prince Jean, Duke of Guise was a French nobleman and Catholic leader. He is most famous for his role in the French Wars of Religion.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise ranks 6,326 out of 19,576Before him are Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Prince Charles of Prussia, Günther Quandt, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Joseph Nasi, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. After him are Mithridates III of Pontus, Empress Dowager Longyu, Fulk I, Count of Anjou, Khentkaus I, Ōkuma Shigenobu, and Vilma Espín.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise ranks 56Before him are Owen D. Young, Serge Koussevitzky, Theodore Lyman IV, Ellery Harding Clark, Henri Farman, and Marguerite Long. After him are Franz Schmidt, Johannes Schober, Thomas J. Watson, Joseph Erlanger, Emilie Louise Flöge, and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky. Among people deceased in 1940, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise ranks 46Before him are Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Gunnar Asplund, Marcus Garvey, Walter Chrysler, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, and Fusajiro Yamauchi. After him are Jan Kubelík, Anton Korošec, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Édouard Claparède, Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg, and Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark.

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In France

Among people born in France, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise ranks 1,808 out of 6,770Before him are Joseph Fesch (1763), Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674), Jean-Marie Guyau (1854), Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721), Jean de Meun (1240), and David d'Angers (1788). After him are Constant Troyon (1810), Georg Muffat (1653), Jacques-François Blondel (1705), Fulk I, Count of Anjou (870), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844), and Henri Michel (1947).

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