# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-de-rapin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:39:20.199Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-de-rapin"
name: "Paul de Rapin"
slug: "paul-de-rapin"
description: "Paul de Rapin, sieur of Thoyras, was a Huguenot historian writing under English patronage. His History of England, written and first published in French in 1724–27, was an influential exposition of the Whig view of history on both sides of the English Channel."
tagline: "French historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_de_Rapin_de_Thoyras%2C_John_and_Paul_Knapton%2C_1743_cropped.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1661-03-25"
deathDate: "1725-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.8
  momentum:             0.5769230769230769
  historical:           4.408352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "پول د راپين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_de_Rapin"
    title: "Paul de Rapin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_de_Rapin_de_Thoyras"
    title: "Paul de Rapin de Thoyras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pau_de_Rapin"
    title: "Pau de Rapin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_de_Rapin"
    title: "Paul de Rapin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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