Gustave Le Bon
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Gustave Le Bon (May 7, 1841–December 13, 1931) was a French social psychologist and sociologist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behaviour and crowd psychology.
Le Bon was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou, France, and died in Marnes-la-Coquette. He studied medicine and toured Europe, Asia and North Africa while writing on archaeology and anthropology before beginning to write his most famous works on psychology - most notably Les Lois psychologiques de l'évolution des peuples (1894; The Psychology of Peoples) and La psychologie des foules (1895; English translation The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, 1897).
External links
- Project Gutenberg e-texts of works by Gustave Le Bon (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Le%20Bon,%20Gustave)
- Gustave Le Bon's works: (http://dly.free.fr/site/article.php3?id_article=45) Page on Gustave Le Bon with his works available in French and in English
- the complete English text to The Crowd (PDF) (http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/lebon/Crowds.pdf)de:Gustave Le Bon