René Alleau
1917–2013French author, historian, and consulting engineer (1917–2013)
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Photo: Saveurs France JLD · CC BY 4.0René Alleau is the best known, with articles in 9 languages. Behind the leader come Gérard Manet and André Eulry. More are writers and artists than anything else, 3 in all. The list comes to 3.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 1.6 in the typical town in Aube.
First, René Alleau (9 languages), then Gérard Manet (2) and André Eulry (1).
French author, historian, and consulting engineer (1917–2013)
French association football player
French painter (1930-1980)
Count by decade and the 1910s come out on top, with 1 births.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Compared with the usual town, writers and artists are the most over-represented field, at 3 times.
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Nearby, Troyes has the most on record, with 214.
René Alleau (French author, historian, and consulting engineer (1917–2013)) is the best known by our measure: 9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Gérard Manet and André Eulry.
4 people born in Sainte-Savine have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one). Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because an article names somewhere else or no town, or a check couldn’t be completed.
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 25% across French towns.
Bernard Milleret, born in 1904. The youngest on the list was born in 1949.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Sainte-Savine itself, matched by its INSEE code (a commune merged into it counts when the dates allow), whose French Wikipedia article agrees, and their English article too when they have one. A hospital or neighbourhood recorded without its commune isn’t matched. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
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