# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:05.168Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Gabriel Honoré Marcel was born 7 December 1889 and spent a life split between the stage and the seminar room, authoring over a dozen books and at least thirty plays. He built what he called a philosophy of existence — or neo-Socrateanism — centered on the individual's struggle inside a technologically dehumanizing world. Though often tagged as the first French existentialist, he kept his distance from Sartre and that crowd, insisting the term didn't fit. His two-volume work The Mystery of Being carried the weight of that argument. He died 8 October 1973, a Christian thinker who'd carved his own path through the century's biggest questions.