# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vivant-denon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:52:13.422Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/vivant-denon"
name: "Vivant Denon"
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description: "Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for France under Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was appointed as the first director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the Louvre museum and in the Dominique-Vivant Denon Research Center. His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte, 1802, was foundational for modern Egyptology."
tagline: "French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist (1747-1825)"
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birthDate: "1747-01-04"
deathDate: "1825-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump