# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-sejour
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:46:47.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-sejour"
name: "Victor Séjour"
slug: "victor-sejour"
description: "Juan Victor Séjour Marcou et Ferrand was an American writer. Born in New Orleans, he spent most of his career in Paris. Séjour's fiction and plays were written and published in French. Although he was mostly unknown to later American writers of the nineteenth century, his short story \"Le Mulâtre\" is the earliest known work of fiction by a Black American author. In France, however, he was known chiefly for his plays. His first work of fiction was an ode to French Emperor Napoleon in 1841."
tagline: "French writer (1817–1874)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor_Sejour_by_Gustave_Le_Gray.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1817"
deathDate: "1874-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.344133333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S%C3%A9jour"
    title: "Victor Séjour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S%C3%A9jour"
    title: "Victor Séjour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S%C3%A9jour"
    title: "Victor Séjour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S%C3%A9jour"
    title: "Victor Séjour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S%C3%A9jour"
    title: "Victor Séjour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S%C3%A9jour"
    title: "Victor Séjour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S%C3%A9jour"
    title: "Victor Séjour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1609757"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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