Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Ferdinand Buisson's Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts
The Romantic Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (20 December 1841 – 16 February 1932) was a French educational public servant, pacifist, and Radical-Socialist (left liberal) politician. The birth-card coordinate for December 20 is the Jack of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1927 Peace prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1927 The Nobel Peace Prize — for their contribution to the emergence in France and Germany of a public opinion which favours peaceful international cooperation
1927 — The Nobel Peace Prize
“for their contribution to the emergence in France and Germany of a public opinion which favours peaceful international cooperation”
Shared with Ludwig Quidde (K♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
103 other Peace laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The Jack of Hearts coordinate
Ferdinand Buisson's birthday maps to the Jack of Hearts (The Romantic Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Ferdinand Buisson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary.
Ferdinand Buisson in the public record
He presided over the League of Education from 1902 to 1906 and over the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1914 to 1926. In 1927, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to him jointly with Ludwig Quidde. A philosopher and educator, he was Director of Primary Education. He was the author of a thesis on Sebastian Castellio, in whom he saw a "liberal Protestant" in his image. Ferdinand Buisson was the president of the National Association of Freethinkers. In 1905, he chaired the parliamentary committee to implement the separation of church and state. Famous for his fight for secular education through the League of Education, he coined the term laïcité ("secularism").
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ferdinand Buisson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Ferdinand Buisson, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Ferdinand Buisson's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- K♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Compassionate King
- 9♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Collaborative Builder
- 8♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Ambitious Builder
- 6♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Generous Provider
- 4♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Rigid Truth
- 10♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Community Heart
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Natural partnership and team-building ability
A philosopher and educator, he was Director of Primary Education.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: education, educator.
Other laureates with this card
- Andrew Huxley — 1963 Physiology or Medicine
- André Gide — 1947 Literature
- Archibald V. Hill — 1922 Physiology or Medicine
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi — 2008 Physiology or Medicine
- George H. Whipple — 1934 Physiology or Medicine
- Godfrey N. Hounsfield — 1979 Physiology or Medicine
- Jaroslav Heyrovsky — 1959 Chemistry
- Louis Néel — 1970 Physics
- Patrick Modiano — 2014 Literature
- Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant — 1909 Peace
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — 1991 Physics
- Robert Mundell — 1999 Economic Sciences
- 2 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Ferdinand Buisson's birth card?
- The Jack of Hearts. December 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Ferdinand Buisson's dates come from?
- Birth date 1841-12-20 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 492) + Wikidata CC0 (Q273607) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ferdinand Buisson). Birth date 1841-12-20 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).