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Camille Flammarion
Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine L'Astronomie, starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.
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culture · French astronomer and author (1842–1925) · astronomer · writer · balloonist · science fiction writer · also Camille Flammarion, F. Marion, Fulgence Marion, Flammarion
Born 26 February 1842 · Died 3 June 1925 · Q295524
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2026· 3 entries
Sortiraparis.com: Visit the Camille Flammarion Observatory during Heritage Days 2026 in Juvisy-sur-Orge.
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Sortir à Paris: Visita el observatorio de Camille Flammarion para las Jornadas del Patrimonio 2026 en Juvisy-sur-Orge
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2025· 5 entries
Le Parisien: Il y a 100 ans, Camille Flammarion, le « Victor Hugo de l’astronomie », s’éteignait à Juvisy-sur-Orge
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Europe1: Camille Flammarion, l'homme qui voulait percer tous les mystères de l’univers
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Sciences et Avenir: Centenaire de la mort de Camille Flammarion : un astronome passionné par les sciences occultes
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Radio France Internationale: Comment Camille Flammarion nous a appris à regarder le ciel ?
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ActuaLitté: Camille Flammarion et les bradythes
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2024· 1 entry
L'indépendant: Romans historiques - Camille Flammarion et l’aliéniste
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2012· 1 entry
Le Parisien: L'âme de Camille Flammarion hante l'observatoire
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1925· 1 entry
Died 1925-06-03.
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1922· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1922).
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1912· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1912).
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1910· 1 entry
For the appearance of Halley's Comet, he was widely but falsely reported as believing the gas from the comet's tail "would impregnate [the Earth’s] atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet"
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1907· 2 entries
Wrote that he believed that dwellers on Mars had tried to communicate with Earth in the past
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That a seven-tailed comet was heading toward Earth
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1897· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Jules Janssen (1897).
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Received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Charles III (1896).
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1887· 1 entry
Awarded Imperial Order of the Rose (1887).
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1882· 1 entry
Awarded Officier de l'Instruction publique (1882).
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1881· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1881).
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1880· 1 entry
Awarded Montyon Prize (1880).
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1867· 1 entry
Awarded officier d'académie (1867).
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1862· 1 entry
Published his first book, The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, and was dismissed from his position at the Paris Observatory later the same year
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1858· 1 entry
Became a professional at computery at the Paris Observatory
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1856· 1 entry
Studied at seminary of Langres (1856).
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1842· 1 entry
Born 1842-02-26.
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