Champollion-Figeac.

Champollion-Figeac. JEAN JACQUES, an archaeologist, was born 5th October 1778 at Figeac, in the department of Lot. After holding at Grenoble the offices of librarian and professor of Greek, he was appointed in 1828 conservator of MSS. in the Royal Library in Paris; but after the February revolution was deposed from office by Carnot. In 1848 he was appointed librarian of the palace of Fontainebleau. Besides the Antiquités de Grenoble (1807) and Recherches sur les patoïs de France (1809), his chief works include the Annales des Lagides (2 vols. 1819; supplement, 1821), Les Tournois du Roi René (1827-28), and numerous publications of French historical documents. After the death of his younger and more celebrated brother, Champollion-Figeac prepared, with the help of his MSS., L'Égypte ancienne et moderne (1840) and L'écriture démotique égyptienne (1843). Along with his son Aimé he wrote the text to Silvestre's Paléographie universelle (4 vols. 1839-41). He died 9th May 1867.—AIMÉ (1812-94) wrote on the Dukes of Orleans, Francis I., and Les Deux Champollions (1888).