# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-nicolas-bouilly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:48:29.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-nicolas-bouilly"
name: "Jean-Nicolas Bouilly"
slug: "jean-nicolas-bouilly"
description: "Jean-Nicolas Bouilly was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution. He is best known for writing a libretto, supposedly based on a true story, about a woman who disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband from prison, which formed the basis of Beethoven's opera Fidelio as well as a number of other operas."
tagline: "French politician and writer (1763-1842)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Nicolas_Bouilly.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1763-01-24"
deathDate: "1842-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.7
  momentum:             3.413149350649349
  historical:           11.612924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099358/"
    handle:    "nm0099358"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Nicolas_Bouilly"
    title: "Jean-Nicolas Bouilly"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Nicolas_Bouilly"
    title: "Jean-Nicolas Bouilly"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Nicolas_Bouilly"
    title: "Jean-Nicolas Bouilly"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Nicolas_Bouilly"
    title: "Jean-Nicolas Bouilly"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Nicolas_Bouilly"
    title: "Jean-Nicolas Bouilly"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Nicolas_Bouilly"
    title: "Jean-Nicolas Bouilly"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump