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'''LE BIOGRAPHE''' is used for persons that are instrumental in constructing the narrative of [[Paul Otlet]]. It may refer to:

* '''[[André Canonne]]''', librarian and director of the Centre de Lecture publique de la Communauté française (CLPCF). Discovers the [[Mundaneum]] in the 1960s. Publishes a facsimile edition of the ''[[Traité de documentation]]'' (1989) and prepares the opening of Espace [[Mundaneum]] in Brussels at [[Place Rogier]] (1990)
* '''[[Warden Boyd Rayward]]''', librarian scientist, discovers the [[Mundaneum]] in the 1970s. Writes the first biography of [[Paul Otlet]] in English: ''The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and international Organization'' (1975)
* '''[[Benoît Peeters]]''' and '''[[François Schuiten]]''', comics-writers and scenographers, discover the [[Mundaneum]] in the 1980s. The archivist in the graphic novel ''Les Cités Obscures '' (1983) is modelled on [[Paul Otlet]]
* '''[[Françoise Levie]]''', filmmaker, discovers the [[Mundaneum]] in the 1990s. Author of the fictionalised biography ''The man who wanted to classify the world'' (2002)
* '''[[Alex Wright]]''', writer and journalist, discovers the [[Mundaneum]] in 2003. Author of ''Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age'' (2014)

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