# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edouard-laferriere
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:01:42.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edouard-laferriere"
name: "Édouard Laferrière"
slug: "edouard-laferriere"
description: "Édouard Louis Julien-Laferrière was a French lawyer and authority in administrative law who held various senior administrative positions during the French Third Republic. He wrote a treatise on administrative law that defined the basis for modern French administrative law. He was appointed Governor-General of Algeria during a crisis in 1898, and established an elected advisory assembly with little real power. He encouraged southward expansion into the Sahara."
tagline: "French jurist-consultant and lawyer (1841-1901)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_d'%C3%89douard_Laferri%C3%A8re.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1841-08-26"
deathDate: "1901-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.57
  momentum:             5.294117647058822
  historical:           4.139489333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Laferri%C3%A8re"
    title: "Édouard Laferrière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Laferri%C3%A8re"
    title: "Édouard Laferrière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Laferri%C3%A8re"
    title: "Édouard Laferrière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Laferri%C3%A8re"
    title: "Édouard Laferrière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2389336"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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