# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edouard-estaunie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:15:53.595Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edouard-estaunie"
name: "Édouard Estaunié"
slug: "edouard-estaunie"
description: "Édouard Estaunié was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word \"telecommunication\" in his Traité pratique de télécommunication électrique. He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer, critic, and homme de lettres as well as a novelist."
tagline: "French novelist and engineer (1862-1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9_1923.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1862-02-04"
deathDate: "1942-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.47833066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "إدوارد استونييه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوارد استونييه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9"
    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9"
    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9"
    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9"
    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9"
    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9"
    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9"
    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
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    title: "Édouard Estaunié"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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