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The most famous people tagged #Astronomy in France

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The most famous people in France associated with Astronomy right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	René Descartes	France	Academics	93.9	0.0
#2	new	Henri Poincaré	France	Academics	77.2	9.5
#3	new	Pierre-Simon Laplace	France	Academics	76.1	25.0
#4	new	Jean le Rond d'Alembert	France	Academics	72.5	11.0
#5	new	Nostradamus	France	Academics	72.5	1.2
#6	new	Antoine Lavoisier	France	Scientists	72.3	0.0
#7	new	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	France	Academics	66.4	0.0
#8	new	Pope Sylvester II	France	Scientists	64.6	13.5
#9	new	Léon Foucault	France	Scientists	63.3	15.2
#10	new	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	France	Scientists	62.9	0.0
#11	new	Urbain Le Verrier	France	Scientists	61.0	15.0
#12	new	Charles Messier	France	Scientists	60.5	2.2
#13	new	Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille	France	Scientists	59.5	39.8
#14	new	François Arago	France	Scientists	58.6	0.3
#15	new	Pytheas	France	Scientists	57.9	6.8
#16	new	Abraham de Moivre	France	Academics	57.4	17.3
#17	new	Marin Mersenne	France	Academics	57.3	7.3
#18	new	Jean-Baptiste Biot	France	Academics	56.9	1.5
#19	new	Jérôme Lalande	France	Scientists	56.6	10.0
#20	new	Siméon Denis Poisson	France	Academics	55.3	0.7
#21	new	Camille Flammarion	France	Scientists	55.0	0.0
#22	new	Pierre Gassendi	France	Academics	55.0	0.4
#23	new	Johann Heinrich Lambert	France	Academics	54.2	0.0