# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-belbenoit
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:33:36.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-belbenoit"
name: "René Belbenoît"
slug: "rene-belbenoit"
description: "Jules René Lucien Belbenoît was a French prisoner on Devil's Island who successfully escaped to the United States. He later published the memoirs, Dry Guillotine (1938) and Hell on Trial (1940), about his exploits."
tagline: "French criminal and writer (1899–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ren%C3%A9_Belbenoit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1899-04-04"
deathDate: "1959-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.809725333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "René Belbenoît"
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    title: "René Belbenoît"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump