d with
Rosellini in publishing the results of Egyptian researches at the
expense of the Tuscan and French governments, when he was seized with a
paralytic disorder, and died at Paris in 1832. Champollion, whose claims
were hotly disputed for many years after his death, is now universally
acknowledged to have been the founder of Egyptology.

He wrote _L'Egypte sous les Phraons_ (2 vols. 8vo, 1814); _Sur
l'ecriture hieratique_ (1821); _Sur l'ecriture demotique_; _Precis du
systeme hieroglyphique_, &c. (1824); _Pantheon egyptien, ou collection
des personnages mythologiques de l'ancienne Egypte_ (incomplete);
_Monumens de l'Egypte et de la Nubie consideres par rapport a
l'histoire, la religion, &c._; _Grammaire egyptienne_ (1836), and
_Dictionnaire egyptienne_(1841), edited by his brother; _Analyse
methodique du texte demotique de Rosette_; _Apercu des resultats
historiques de la decouverte de l'alphabet hieroglyphique_ (1827);
_Memoires sur les signes employes par les Egyptiens dans leurs trois
systemes graphiques a la notation des principales divisions du temps_;
_Lettres ecrites d'Egypte et de Nubie_ (1833); and also seveial
letters on Egyptian subjects, addressed at different periods to the
duc de Blacas and others.

See H. Hartleben, _Champollion, sein Leben und sein Werk_ (2 vols.,
1906); also EGYPT: _Language and Writing_ (_ad init._).

CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC, JACQUES JOSEPH (1778-1867), French archaeologist,
elder brother of Jean Francois Champollion, was born at Figeac in the
department of Lot, on the 5th of October 1778. He became professor of
Greek and librarian at Grenoble, but was compelled to retire in 1816 on
account of the part he had taken during the Hundred Days. He afterwards
became keeper of manuscripts at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and
professor of palaeography at the Ecole des Chartes. In 1849 he became
librarian of the palace of Fontainebleau. He edited several of his
brother's works, and was also author of original works on philological
and historical subjects, among which may be mentioned _Nouvelles
recherches sur les patois ou idiomes vulgaires de la France_ (1809),
_Annales de Lagides_ (1819) and _Chartes latines sur papyrus du VIe
siecle de l'ere chretienne_. His son AIME (1812-1894) became his
father's assistant at the Bibliotheque Nationale, and besides a number
of works on historical subjects wrote a biographical and bibliographical
study of his f