# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-francois-sebastien-fauvel
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:34:59.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-francois-sebastien-fauvel"
name: "Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel"
slug: "louis-francois-sebastien-fauvel"
description: "Louis-François-Sebastien Fauvel was a French painter, diplomat and archaeologist who was long stationed in Athens. Fauvel has been called the \"Father of Archaeology in Greece and, for his collection and exporting of Greek antiquities, its 'best-known systematic antiquities thief'."
tagline: "French painter, diplomat and archaeologist (1753-1838)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DupreFauvel_Acropole_1825.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1753-09-14"
deathDate: "1838-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.807056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Fran%C3%A7ois-S%C3%A9bastien_Fauvel"
    title: "Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Fran%C3%A7ois-S%C3%A9bastien_Fauvel"
    title: "Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Fran%C3%A7ois-S%C3%A9bastien_Fauvel"
    title: "Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Fran%C3%A7ois-S%C3%A9bastien_Fauvel"
    title: "Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis-Fran%C3%A7ois-S%C3%A9bastien_Fauvel"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18116180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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