Figeac
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Figeac is a commune in the southwestern French department of Lot. Figeac is a sub-prefecture of the department.
A view of Figeac from the parvise of Notre-Dame-du-Puy church.
Saint-Sauveur Church.
Notre-Dame du Puy church.
Champollion Museum
Jean-François Champollion
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Jean-François Champollion, also known as Champollion le jeune, was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of
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…Aiguille du Cingle, standing south of the city, measures 14.50 meters. The L'aiguille de Lissac or Nayrac, standing to the west, measures 10.50 meters. Jean-François Champollion, the first translator of Egyptian hieroglyphics, was born in Figeac, where there is a Champollion Museum. His father had married a woman from Figeac…
Portrait by Léon Cogniet, 1831
Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, brother and faithful supporter of the scientific endeavors of Jean-François Champollion
The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 and has been displayed in the British Museum since 1802. This trilingual stela presents the same text in hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek, thus providing the first clues based on which Young and Champollion deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphic script.
Bonaparte Devant le Sphinx (Bonaparte Before the Sphinx) by Jean-Léon Gérôme. Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt (1798–1801) raised the profile of Egypt and its civilization in France, and started a period of Egyptomania