# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melchisedech-thevenot
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:14:15.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melchisedech-thevenot"
name: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
slug: "melchisedech-thevenot"
description: "Melchisédech or Melchisédec Thévenot was a French writer, scientist, traveller, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomat. He was the inventor of the spirit level and is also famous for his popular posthumously published 1696 book The Art of Swimming, one of the first books on the subject and widely read during the 18th century. Benjamin Franklin, an avid swimmer in his youth, is known to have read it. The book popularized the breaststroke ; he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1990. He also influenced the founding of the Académie Royale des Sciences."
tagline: "French scientist (1620–1692)"
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: "1620"
deathDate: "1692-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.72
  momentum:             0.9461663947797716
  historical:           8.957489333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchis%C3%A9dech_Th%C3%A9venot"
    title: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchis%C3%A9dech_Th%C3%A9venot"
    title: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchis%C3%A9dech_Th%C3%A9venot"
    title: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchis%C3%A9dech_Th%C3%A9venot"
    title: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchis%C3%A9dech_Th%C3%A9venot"
    title: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%93%D7%A7_%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%95"
    title: "מלכיצדק תבנו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchis%C3%A9dech_Th%C3%A9venot"
    title: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchis%C3%A9dech_Th%C3%A9venot"
    title: "Melchisédech Thévenot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Тевено, Мельхиседек"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump