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Sèvres ranks 1,709th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Argos, Peloponnese, Liepāja, and Ferrol, Spain. Memorable people born in Sèvres include Constant Troyon, Léon Brillouin, and Charles Julien Brianchon. Memorable people who died in Sèvres include Charles Édouard Guillaume, Léon Gambetta, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. Sèvres has been the birth place of many soccer players and painters and the death place of many physicists and painters. Sèvres is located in France.

Sèvres is a French commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris. It is located 9.9 kilometres from the centre of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region. The commune, which had a population of 23,251 as of 2018, is known for its famous porcelain production at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, which was also where the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) was signed. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1783 and 1990, Sèvres was the birth place of 8 globally memorable people, including Constant Troyon, Léon Brillouin, and Charles Julien Brianchon. Additionaly, 12 globally memorable people have passed away in Sèvres including Charles Édouard Guillaume, Léon Gambetta, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Sèvres than were born there.

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Most individuals born in present day Sèvres were soccer players (4), painters (1), physicists (1), mathematicians (1), and basketball players (1),  while most who died were physicists (2), painters (2), social activists (2), politicians (1), and historians (1).

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 3 globally memorable people born in Sèvres since 1700.