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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Gustave Le Bon earned his medical degree at the University of Paris in 1866 but never practiced, turning instead to writing. The Franco-Prussian War and watching the Paris Commune unfold in 1871 bent his view of human nature toward the dark. He spent years traveling Europe, Asia, and North Africa, studying peoples through the lens of anthropology and inventing a portable cephalometer along the way. In the 1890s he pivoted to psychology and sociology, publishing The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind in 1895 — the work that argued crowds form a new psychological entity shaped by what he called the "racial unconscious." At the same time he was theorizing about mass behavior, he ran physics experiments and wrote popular science books that anticipated mass-energy equivalence and the coming Atomic Age. The French establishment largely ignored or dismissed him for his conservative and reactionary politics. He kept working across all his fields until his death in 1931.