# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-leguat
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:34:14.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-leguat"
name: "François Leguat"
slug: "francois-leguat"
description: "François Leguat was a French explorer and naturalist. He was one of a small group of male French Protestant refugees who in 1691 settled on the then uninhabited island of Rodrigues in the western Indian Ocean. The colonists became discontented with their life on the island and after a stay of two years managed to escape to Mauritius in a small boat. Leguat arrived back in Europe in June 1698 and wrote a book recounting his adventures which was published in 1708. In his book Leguat describes several species of birds and tortoises that were endemic to Rodrigues but are now extinct."
tagline: "French explorer and colon (1637-1735)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Leguat1891frontispieceFr1708.jpg/330px-Leguat1891frontispieceFr1708.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1637"
deathDate: "1735"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.34665333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Франсуа Леґа"
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    title: "فرانسوا ليغا"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Leguat"
    title: "François Leguat"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Leguat"
    title: "François Leguat"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Leguat"
    title: "François Leguat"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Leguat"
    title: "François Leguat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Leguat"
    title: "François Leguat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Leguat"
    title: "François Leguat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Leguat"
    title: "François Leguat"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC"
    title: "フランソワ・ルガ"
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    title: "Лега, Франсуа"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump