List of Famous people with last name Chavannes

Édouard Chavannes

First Name Édouard

Last Name Chavannes

Born on October 5, 1865

Died on January 20, 1918 (aged 52)

Born in France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes was a French sinologist and expert on Chinese history and religion, and is best known for his translations of major segments of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, the work's first ever translation into a Western language.

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

First Name Pierre

Last Name Chavannes

Born on December 14, 1824

Died on October 24, 1898 (aged 73)

Born in France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as 'the painter for France'. He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as "an art made of reason, passion, and will".

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