Champollion-figeac
Encyclopedia Britannica
CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC, Jean Jacques (1778- 1867), elder brother of Jean François Champoilion, was born at Figeac, in 1778, He became professor of Greek and librarian at Grenoble, then librarian of the imperial library at Paris, and, when he lost this post in 1828, librarian to Louis Napoleon at Fontainebleau. He edited several of his brother’s works, and was also author of a number 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 des Lagides (1819), Paléographie ancienne et moderne (1839-41), Louis et Charles d ’ Orleans (1843).
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5, p. 387
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