# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-ragon-de-bange
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:02:33.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-ragon-de-bange"
name: "Charles Ragon de Bange"
slug: "charles-ragon-de-bange"
description: "Charles Ragon de Bange was a French artillery officer and Polytechnician. He invented the first effective obturator system for breech-loading artillery, which remains in use. He also designed a system of field guns of various calibers which served the French Army well into World War I: the Système de Bange."
tagline: "French Army officer (1833–1914)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/T6-_d168_-_Fig._137._%E2%80%94_Le_colonel_de_Bange.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1833-10-17"
deathDate: "1914-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.162457333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Charles Ragon de Bange"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Bange"
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    title: "Банж, Валерьен"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ragon_de_Bange"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump