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René Caillié

1799 - 1838

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Auguste René Caillié (French pronunciation: [ʁəne kaje]; 19 November 1799 – 17 May 1838) was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city. Caillié was therefore the first to return alive. Caillié was born in western France in a village near the port of Rochefort. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René Caillié is the 208th most popular explorer (down from 185th in 2019), the 2,447th most popular biography from France (down from 2,267th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, René Caillié ranks 208 out of 498. Before him are Pedro Arias Dávila, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Francis Garnier, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, Douglas Mawson, and John Rolfe. After him are Vasily Tatishchev, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, John Sutter, Ruy López de Villalobos, Jorge Álvares, and Gerónimo de Aguilar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, René Caillié ranks 22. Before him are Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Ferenc Gyulay, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, and Almeida Garrett. After him are Vincenz Priessnitz, David Douglas, Ignaz von Döllinger, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Countess of Ségur, and Ludwig Rellstab. Among people deceased in 1838, René Caillié ranks 18. Before him are Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Frédéric Cuvier, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Ferdinand Ries, Hussein Dey, and Bernhard Crusell. After him are Charles Percier, Heinrich Marx, Black Hawk, Joseph Lancaster, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, and José Bonifácio de Andrada.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Caillié ranks 2,447 out of 6,770. Before him are Aldegonde (639), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Yann Tiersen (1970), Marie Bracquemond (1840), Isabelle Aubret (1938), and Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811). After him are Aurore Clément (1945), François Devienne (1759), Pierre Lemaitre (1951), François Blondel (1618), Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao (1796), and Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, René Caillié ranks 23. Before him are Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Francis Garnier (1839), and Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510). After him are Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), André Thevet (1516), Pierre Poivre (1719), Freya Stark (1893), and Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755).

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