* Jean-François Champollion, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs

After Jean-François Champollion translated the Rosetta Stone, Charles X decreed that an Egyptian Antiquities department be created.

* 1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French scholar ( b. 1790 )

Beginning with the famous decipherment and translation of the Rosetta Stone by Jean-François Champollion in 1822, a number of individuals attempted to decipher the writing systems of the Ancient Near East and Aegean.

It was 20 years, however, before the decipherment of the Egyptian texts was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris in 1822 ; it took longer still before scholars were able to read other Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently.

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 provided critical missing information, gradually revealed by a succession of scholars, that eventually allowed Jean-François Champollion to determine the nature of this mysterious script.

In 1814, Young first exchanged correspondence about the stone with Jean-François Champollion, a teacher at Grenoble who had produced a scholarly work on ancient Egypt.

A giant copy of the Rosetta Stone by Joseph Kosuth in Figeac, France, the birthplace of Jean-François Champollion

* 1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.

De Gébelin wrote this treatise before Jean-François Champollion had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, or indeed before the Rosetta Stone had been discovered, and later Egyptologists found nothing in the Egyptian language to support de Gébelin's fanciful etymologies.

* 1822 – Hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone.

* 1822 Jean-François Champollion cracks the hieroglyphic code by using the Rosetta Stone.

* December 23 – Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist ( d. 1832 )

Jean-François Champollion

* Hieroglyphs are deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone.

* March 4 – Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist ( b. 1790 )

Discovered in 1803 by Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, brother of the egyptologist Jean-François Champollion, the church is one of the first monuments classified in France thanks to the intervention of Prosper Mérimée, historic monument inspector.

in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs ( specifically the Rosetta Stone ) before Jean-François Champollion eventually expanded on his work.

When the French linguist Jean-François Champollion in 1822 published a translation of the hieroglyphs and the key to the grammatical system, Young ( and many others ) praised his work.

Jean-François Champollion ( 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832 ) was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

* A museum devoted to Jean-François Champollion was created in his birthplace at Figeac in Lot.

* Giants of Egyptology: Jean-François Champollion, 1790 – 1832

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Jean-François Lyotard, one of the group of students on the trip selected to visit Heidegger, wrote about the experience thus:

Ippolito Rosellini, a member of Jean-François Champollion's 1828 / 29 expedition to Egypt brought a further portrait back to Florence.

In Ancient Egypt barques, referred to using the French word as Egyptian hieroglyphs were first translated by the Frenchman Jean-François Champollion, were a type of boat used from Egypt's earliest recorded times and are depicted in many drawings, paintings, and reliefs that document the culture.

* He asserts that the identification of " Shishaq, King of Egypt " ( 1 Kings 14: 25f ; 2 Chronicles 12: 2-9 ) with Shoshenq I, first proposed by Jean-François Champollion, is based on incorrect conclusions.

This Egypt of the imagination came to grief with the 1824 decryption of hieroglyphs by Jean-François Champollion.

Many famous people are buried in the graveyard: Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( in a tomb designed by Frederic, Lord Leighton ), Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Fanny Trollope and her daughter-in-law Theodosia Garrow Trollope and three other family members, Isa Blagden, Southwood Smith, Hiram Powers, Joel Tanner Hart, Theodore Parker, Fanny, the wife of William Holman Hunt in a tomb he himself sculpted, Mary, the daughter of John Roddam Spencer Stanhope in a tomb he himself sculpted, Louise, sister to Henry Adams, whose dying he describes in his ' Chaos ' chapter in The Education of Henry Adams, two children of the Greek painter George Mignaty, whom Robert had paint Casa Guidi as it was when Elizabeth Barrett Browning died there, and Nadezhda De Santis, a black Nubian slave brought to Florence at fourteen from Jean-François Champollion's 1827 expedition to Egypt and Nubia, while the French Royalist exile Félicie de Fauveau sculpted two tombs here.

The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team directed by French archaeologist Jean-François Jarrige, and was excavated continuously between 1974 and 1986, and again from 1997 to 2000.

In 1632, the king bought the totality of the land and seigneury of Versailles from Jean-François de Gondi.

* June 15 – After several attempts, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and his companion, Pierre Romain, set off in a balloon from Boulogne-sur-Mer, but the balloon suddenly deflates ( without the envelope catching fire ) and crashes near Wimereux in the Pas-de-Calais, killing both men, making it the first fatal aviation disaster.

It was extracted from malt solution in 1833 by Anselme Payen and Jean-François Persoz, chemists at a French sugar factory.

Campra was the son of Jean-François Campra, a surgeon and violinist from Graglia, in Italy, and of Louise Fabry, from Aix-en-Provence.

Painting by Jean-François Pierre Peyron from 1802.

" Jean-François Lyotard, in Fredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold that there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period of high modernism ; instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.

Baudrillard himself, since 1984, was fairly consistent in his view that contemporary art, and postmodern art in particular, was inferior to the modernist art of the post World War II period, while Jean-François Lyotard praised Contemporary painting and remarked on its evolution from Modern art.

He was, however, not without friends, and by the intercession of Count Gustaf Philip Creutz, the Swedish ambassador, Grétry obtained a libretto from Jean-François Marmontel, which he set to music in less than six weeks, and which, on its performance in August 1768, met with unparalleled success.

He is buried in the English Cemetery there, in a tomb that his wife and sister had Susan Horner design from Jean-François Champollion's book on Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Art Nouveau building from the architect Jules Lavirotte, sculptures by Jean-François Larrivé ( 1875-1928 ).

* Natural disaster: French official first report from the Institut de Veille Sanitaire was presented to Jean-François Mattei ( Health Minister ).

He also translated various works from the French and English, including Jean-François Marmontel's Tales and Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism.

Successive leaders of the GUD were: Jack Marchal, Jean-François Santacroce, Serge Rep, Philippe Cuignache, Charles-Henri Varaut, Frédéric Chatillon, William Bonnefoy, Benoît Fleury ( from 1995 to 2000 ; now a professor at the law school of the University of Poitiers ).

His son, Jean-François Bertrand, was the Member of the National Assembly for the district of Vanier from 1976 to 1985 and a Cabinet Member of René Lévesque's Parti Québécois government.

One of them, Jean-François Millet, extended the idea from landscape to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields.

In April 1789, however, twelve months after the departure from Botany Bay by the French expedition led by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, a catastrophic epidemic of smallpox ( or possibly chicken pox ) spread through the Eora people and surrounding groups, with the result that local Aborigines died in their hundreds, and bodies could be seen in the water in Sydney Harbour and lying on beaches and in adjacent caves.

Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane ( born 6 October 1939 ) is a Gabonese politician who was Prime Minister of Gabon from 23 January 1999 to 20 January 2006.

However, a local scholar, Jean-François Séguier, was able to reconstruct the inscription in 1758 from the order and number of the holes in the portico's facade, to which the bronze letters had been affixed by projecting tines.

Joseph-Dominique d ' Inguimbert, Bishop of Carpentras from 1735 to 1754, established a great scholarly library which Jean-François Delmas, the current chief librarian, has called " the oldest of our municipal libraries "; known as the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine and now holding around 140, 000 books, it is known to bibliophiles all over France and is scheduled to move into roomier quarters in the former Hôtel-Dieu in 2013.

In 1981, after the defeat of the conservatives in legislative elections, finding the RPR too moderate, and realizing that not being a graduate from the École Nationale d ' Administration like Jacques Toubon or Jean-François Mancel or Alain Juppé was slowing down his political career in the Rassemblement pour la République, he went on to create the Comités d ' Action Républicaine ( CAR ).

* Jean-François Dehecq was the General Manager of Sanofi from its creation in 1973 until 2007.