Christian Cointat
born 1943French politician
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Articles in 3 languages make the French politician Christian Cointat the best known. The French politician Charles Florimond de Voguë ranks second, ahead of Eugène Jacques Joseph Innocent de Vogüé. Go 11 mi to Orange and the list grows to 44, with Michel Petrucciani at the top. Fewer than a quarter of the 99 towns in Gard with famous people list more.
Counted by languages, Christian Cointat is ahead of Charles Florimond de Voguë and Eugène Jacques Joseph Innocent de Vogüé: 3, 1 and 1.
French politician
French politician
French politician (1777-1854)
The most names next door are in Orange: 44.
Bagnols-sur-Cèze · 3 miAntoine de Rivarol & 33 more
Uzès · 11 miFirmin Abauzit & 22 more
Pont-Saint-Esprit · 10 miGeorges Ville & 19 more
Laudun-l'Ardoise · 4 miFrédéric Fuzet & 3 morePGRoquemaure · 10 miPaul Granet & 3 more
Piolenc · 10 miJean-Louis Trintignant & 2 moreRBMondragon · 10 miRodolphe Bringer & 2 moreChristian Cointat (French politician) is the best known by our measure: 3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages. Next come Charles Florimond de Voguë and Eugène Jacques Joseph Innocent de Vogüé.
3 people born in Tresques have a French Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace (and an English one that agrees, when there is one).
Among its famous people, leaders: 3 of the 3. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 24% across French towns.
Charles Florimond de Voguë, born in 1769. The youngest on the list was born in 1943.
People whose Wikidata birthplace is Tresques 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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