# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-taxil
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:54:43.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-taxil"
name: "Léo Taxil"
slug: "leo-taxil"
description: "Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, better known by the pen name Léo Taxil, was a French writer and journalist who became known for his strong anti-Catholic and anti-clerical views. He is also known for the Taxil hoax, a spurious exposé of Freemasonry and the Catholic Church's opposition to it."
tagline: "French writer (1854–1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/L%C3%A9o_Taxil_(Melandri).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1854-03-21"
deathDate: "1907-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.02479543763947435
  historical:           22.07888133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump