Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (born 1840)

Gustave Le Bon

French psychologist (1841–1931)

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal…