# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edouard-de-villiers-du-terrage
# Generated: 2026-08-15T23:11:06.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edouard-de-villiers-du-terrage"
name: "Édouard de Villiers du Terrage"
slug: "edouard-de-villiers-du-terrage"
description: "Édouard de Villiers du Terrage was a French engineer who, together with Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois, participated in Napoleon's expedition to Egypt from 1798 to 1801 and helped compile the Description de l'Égypte. His personal diary of the expedition was published in 1899 by his grandson Marc de Villiers du Terrage and reissued as L'expédition d'Égypte. Journal d'un jeune savant engagé dans l'état-major de Bonaparte (1798-1801) in 2001."
tagline: "French egyptologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%89douard_Devilliers_du_Terrage_(1780-1855).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1780-04-26"
deathDate: "1855-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.78
  momentum:             5.294117647058822
  historical:           6.337869333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Édouard de Villiers du Terrage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رينيه إدوارد دو فيلييه دو تيراج"
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    title: "رينيه ادوارد دو فيلييه دو تيراج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Édouard de Villiers du Terrage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_de_Villiers_du_Terrage"
    title: "Édouard de Villiers du Terrage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_de_Villiers_du_Terrage"
    title: "Édouard de Villiers du Terrage"
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    title: "Édouard de Villiers du Terrage"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump