# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-benoist
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:50:49.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-benoist"
name: "Michel Benoist"
slug: "michel-benoist"
description: "Michel Benoist was a Jesuit scientist who served for thirty years in the court of the Qianlong Emperor during the Qing dynasty, known for his architectural and landscape designs of the Old Summer Palace. Along with Giuseppe Castiglione, Benoist served as one of two Jesuit advisors to the Qianlong Emperor, and transformed parts of the Old Summer Palace into what historian Mark Elliott calls an \"imitation of Versailles or Fontainebleau.\""
tagline: "French scientist"
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: "1715-10-08"
deathDate: "1774-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "蒋友仁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Benoist"
    title: "Michel Benoist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Benoist"
    title: "Michel Benoist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Benoist"
    title: "Michel Benoist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Benoist"
    title: "Michel Benoist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%8E%E3%83%AF"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EC%85%B8_%EB%B2%A0%EB%88%84%EC%95%84"
    title: "미셸 베누아"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Benoist"
    title: "Michel Benoist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1042948"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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