# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edouard-chavannes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:57:05.841Z

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name: "Édouard Chavannes"
slug: "edouard-chavannes"
description: "Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes was a French sinologist and expert on Chinese history and religion, and is best known for his translations of major segments of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, the work's first ever translation into a Western language."
tagline: "French sinologist"
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category:
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birthDate: "1865-10-05"
deathDate: "1918-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump