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unusual facts about Aimé Champollion-Figeac



Grenoble Archaeological Museum

In the first half of the nineteenth century, three men will revive the architectural interest of this church, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Prosper Mérimée and Pierre Manguin.

Ippolito Rosellini

The final version of the work was edited with the assistance of Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, but the relationship between the two ended when Champollion's brother demanded that he become the sole editor of the work.

Lettre à M. Dacier

While visiting his brother Jacques-Joseph on September 14, 1822, Jean-François Champollion made a crucial breakthrough in understanding the phonetic nature of hieroglyphics, and proclaimed "Je tiens l'affaire!" ("I've got it!") and then fainted dead away.

Mathieu Molé

The Mémoires of Molé were edited for the Société de l'histoire de France (4 vols., 1855) by Aimé Champollion-Figeac, and his life was written by Baron AGP de Barante in Le Parlement et la Fronde (1859).

Pre-Romanesque art and architecture

In southwestern France at the monastery of Saint Martial in Limoges a number of manuscripts were produced around year 1000, as were produced in Albi, Figeac and Saint-Sever-de-Rustan in Gascony.

Revaz Gigauri

Gigauri moved to France, where he has been playing for Montluçon Rugby (2006/07-2007/08), RC Massy (2008/09), GS Figeac (2009/10) and Boulogne-Billancourt, since 2010/11.


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