Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841 to 1931) was a leading French polymath whose interests included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, regarded as one of the seminal works of crowd psychology. A native of Nogent-le-Rotrou, he qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Paris in 1866 but chose to write rather than practise. The Franco-Prussian War and his first-hand witness of the Paris Commune strongly shaped his worldview, and he then travelled widely in Europe, Asia and North Africa, analysing the peoples he met within the new field of anthropology. In the 1890s he turned to psychology and sociology, arguing that crowds are not the sum of their individual parts but form a new psychological entity.
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Gustave Le Bon, a French physician and philosopher, was born in 1841 in Nogent-le-Rotrou
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was a leading French polymath
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