# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-melon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:10:46.018Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-melon"
name: "Jean-François Melon"
slug: "jean-francois-melon"
description: "Jean-François Melon was a French political economist, considered one of the precursors of the Physiocracy movement. According to István Hont, his Political Essay upon Commerce was the most widely available defense of luxury in France in the early 18th century."
tagline: "French economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melon_-_Essai_politique_sur_le_commerce%2C_1754_-_5717500.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1675"
deathDate: "1738-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.35
  momentum:             0.24
  historical:           5.471274666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jean-François Melon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چيان فرانسوا ميلون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Melon"
    title: "Jean-François Melon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Melon"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Melon"
    title: "Jean-François Melon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Мелон, Жан-Франсуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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