# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benoit-de-maillet
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:43:25.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benoit-de-maillet"
name: "Benoît de Maillet"
slug: "benoit-de-maillet"
description: "Benoît de Maillet was a well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian. He was French consul general at Cairo, and overseer in the Levant. He formulated an evolutionary hypothesis to explain the origin of the Earth and its contents."
tagline: "French naturalists, biologist and diplomat (1656-1738)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Maillet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1656-04-12"
deathDate: "1738-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.61
  momentum:             4.909090909090907
  historical:           9.142297333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Benoît de Maillet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "بنوا دي ماييه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Maillet"
    title: "Benoît de Maillet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Maillet"
    title: "Benoît de Maillet"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Maillet"
    title: "Benoît de Maillet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%87"
    title: "بنوا دمیه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Maillet"
    title: "Benoît de Maillet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Maillet"
    title: "Benoît de Maillet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_de_Maillet"
    title: "Benoît de Maillet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%8E%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A8"
    title: "ブノワ・ド・マイエ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2896680"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump