# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-louis-laya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:44:16.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-louis-laya"
name: "Jean-Louis Laya"
slug: "jean-louis-laya"
description: "Jean-Louis Laya was a French playwright. He wrote his first comedy in collaboration with Gabriel-Marie Legouvé in 1785. The piece, however, though accepted by the Comédie française, was never represented. In 1789 he produced a plea for religious toleration in the form of a five-act tragedy in verse, Jean Calas. In his next work, the injustice of the disgrace cast on a family by the crime of one of its members formed the theme of Les Dangers de l'opinion (1790)."
tagline: "French dramatist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Landry_-_Portrait_de_Jean-Louis_Laya_(1761-1833)%2C_auteur_dramatique_-_P195_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Carnavalet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1761-12-04"
deathDate: "1833-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.203636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جان لويس لايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Laya"
    title: "Jean-Louis Laya"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Laya"
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    title: "Лайя, Жан-Луи"
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    title: "Jean-Louis Laya"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump