# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gabriel-senac-de-meilhan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:44:38.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gabriel-senac-de-meilhan"
name: "Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan"
slug: "gabriel-senac-de-meilhan"
description: "Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan was a French writer. He witnessed the beginning of the French Revolution in Paris, but soon emigrated in 1790 to London and then to Aachen. He wrote a novel, L'Émigré, in 1793. In 1792 he was invited by Catherine II of Russia to become the imperial historiographer, but Catherine was displeased by his manners and dismissed him."
tagline: "French historian and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gabriel_S%C3%A9nac_de_Meilhan_(1736-1803)%2C_French_School_around_1780.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1736-05-07"
deathDate: "1803-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.474658666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_S%C3%A9nac_de_Meilhan"
    title: "Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_S%C3%A9nac_de_Meilhan"
    title: "Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gabriel_S%C3%A9nac_de_Meilhan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_S%C3%A9nac_de_Meilhan"
    title: "Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%B4%D0%B5_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Сенак де Мейлан, Габриэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3093966"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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