# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-joseph-tranchot
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:07.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-joseph-tranchot"
name: "Jean-Joseph Tranchot"
slug: "jean-joseph-tranchot"
description: "Jean-Joseph Tranchot was a French military cartographer. He is most well known for his topographical survey of the Rhineland under Napoleon, and his assistance in measuring the meridian arc of France with astronomer Pierre Méchain to determine to length of the meter."
tagline: "French geographer (1752–1815)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1752-01-02"
deathDate: "1815-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.17
  momentum:             4.193598750975801
  historical:           4.807092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Joseph_Tranchot"
    title: "Jean Joseph Tranchot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Tranchot"
    title: "Jean-Joseph Tranchot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Joseph_Tranchot"
    title: "Jean Joseph Tranchot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Tranchot"
    title: "Jean-Joseph Tranchot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Joseph_Tranchot"
    title: "Jean Joseph Tranchot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q971763"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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