# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-elie-roudaire
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:03:32.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-elie-roudaire"
name: "François Élie Roudaire"
slug: "francois-elie-roudaire"
description: "François Élie Roudaire was a French author, military officer and geographer. He, along with Ferdinand de Lesseps, was a proponent of creating an inland Sahara Sea by flooding areas of the Sahara Desert which were below sea level."
tagline: "French geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Commandant_roudaire_1879.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1836-08-06"
deathDate: "1885-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.28
  momentum:             5.454545454545454
  historical:           5.00486
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89lie_Roudaire"
    title: "François Élie Roudaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89lie_Roudaire"
    title: "François Élie Roudaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89lie_Roudaire"
    title: "François Élie Roudaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89lie_Roudaire"
    title: "François Élie Roudaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89lie_Roudaire"
    title: "François Élie Roudaire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3086375"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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