# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-flatters
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:24:07.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-flatters"
name: "Paul Flatters"
slug: "paul-flatters"
description: "Paul Flatters was a French soldier who spent a long period as a military administrator in Algeria. He is known as leader of the Flatters expedition, an ill-fated attempt to explore the route of a proposed Trans-Saharan railway from Algeria to the Sudan. Almost all members of the expedition were massacred by hostile Tuaregs. The survivors resorted to eating grass and to cannibalism on the long retreat through the desert. After a brief outburst of public indignation the fiasco was forgotten."
tagline: "French explorer (1832–1881)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colonel_Paul_Flatters_c._1880.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1832-09-16"
deathDate: "1881-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.909938666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flatters"
    title: "Paul Flatters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flatters"
    title: "Paul Flatters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flatters"
    title: "Paul Flatters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Флаттерс, Поль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flatters"
    title: "Paul Flatters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flatters"
    title: "Paul Flatters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q675579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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