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Jean-François Champollion
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Born December 23, 1790 • France
Died March 4, 1832 (aged 41) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Egyptian language • Rosetta Stone • hieroglyphic writing

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James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted
American archaeologist
Quicherat, detail of a lithograph by Tony Toullion
Jules Quicherat
French historian
Hugo Winckler
German archaeologist
Anthony John Arkell
British Egyptologist
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian and political writer
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Fernand Braudel
French historian and educator
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
Marc Bloch
French historian
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
French historian
Jules Michelet, detail of an oil painting by Thomas Couture; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.
Jules Michelet
French historian
François Guizot
François Guizot
French politician and historian
Henri Loyrette
French arts administrator and historian
Barnave, Antoine
Antoine Barnave
French politician
Hilaire Belloc
British author
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
Jacques-Auguste de Thou
French statesman and historian
Ollivier, photograph by P. Petit; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Émile Ollivier
French statesman
Aubigné, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
Théodore-Agrippa d’ Aubigné
French soldier and author

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