# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alain-besancon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:16.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alain-besancon"
name: "Alain Besançon"
slug: "alain-besancon"
description: "Alain Besançon was a French historian. He specialised in intellectual history and Russian politics. From 1965 to 1992 he was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France in 1996."
tagline: "French historian and teacher (1932-2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-04-25"
deathDate: "2023-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             12.48322147651007
  historical:           16.028584
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump