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250-tir99
Bronze medal from the Paris Mint (cornucopia hallmark from 1880).
Minted in 1990.
Beautiful copy.
Engraver / Artist : Raymond CORBIN (1907-2002).
Dimension : 81mm.
Weight : 238 g.
Metal : bronze.
Hallmark on the edge (mark on the edge) : cornucopia + br flo.
Quick and neat delivery.
The easel is not for sale.
The stand is not for sale
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Jean-François Champollion known as Champollion the Younger, born December 23, 1790 in Figeac (Lot) and died Mars 4, 1832 in Paris, is a French Egyptologist.
The first to decipher hieroglyphics, Champollion is considered the father of Egyptology. He said of himself: “I am all for Egypt, it is all for me.”
On his father's side, Jean-François, known as the Jeunea, belongs to a family from Valbonnais1 originating from Valjouffrey (Isère)2,3, a village inhabited by peasants who traveled the regions as peddlers during the winter3. His grandparents, Barthélemy Champollion, born in 1694 in Valjouffrey2, who did not know how to sign3, and Marie Géréoud or Géroux, born in 1709 in Valbonnais2, married in Valbonnais in 17272,4. They have five children3 including Jacques, born February 10, 1744 in La-Roche-des-Engelas (today hamlet of Valbonnais)2,5,3, who was expelled from his native hamlet for perhaps political reasonsb,3 and must travel throughout France as a peddler before settling in Figeac6, undoubtedly invited by a cousin, a canon of the Saint-Sauveur basilica7. There, on January 28, 1773, he married Jeanne-Françoise Gualieuc, from a bourgeois family in this town; In 1772 he bought a house8 and in 1779 a bookseller's shop on Place Basse as well as a new house which would become the Champollion museum9. He had eight children10 from his wife: Guillaume, who died at birth (October 1773), Thérèse born a year later, Pétronille in 1776, Jacques-Joseph on October 8, 1778, Jean-Baptiste who died at three years old and Marie-Jeanne in 178210 .
Birth and early childhood
A strange story about the birth of Champollion tells us that his mother, affected by rheumatism to the point of preventing her from moving, was cured by a peasant who promised her, when she was forty-eight years old, the birth of a son. Indeed, Champollion was born a year after these events, on December 23, 1790 in Figeac and was baptized the same eveningf,11. The Revolution was then raging in Figeac and Champollion's father was more in the Jacobin movement even if it is doubtful whether he was police secretary12.
He taught himself to read a missal at the age of five13. He was raised mainly by his brother, but he left for Grenoble in July 1798g,14. He entered school in November of the same year14. He has great difficulty in mathematics and spelling15 (it will not be corrected until much later16…); his very bad character gives him a lot of difficulties. He has a tutor, Father Jean-Joseph Calmelsi,14 who opens him up to culture and teaches him the basics of Latin, ancient Greek and natural history17 and his big brother still takes care of him despite the distances through abundant correspondence18.
An education led by his brother
On Mars 27, 1801, he left Figeac to arrive in Grenoble, leaving his family to join his brother Jacques-Josephj who directed his education19. In fact, his big brother began by giving him lessons himself20.
The task being much too heavy, he decided to entrust his student to Abbot Dussert, a renowned teacher from Grenoblel,21. Champollion was his student from November 1802 to the summer holidays of 1804. His lessons then took place for letters with the abbot and for the rest at the central school of Grenoble21 where his drawing teacher was Louis-Joseph Jay. The abbot taught him Latin and Greek, and he was able to begin the study of Hebrew and acquire the rudiments of Arabic, Syriac and Chaldean, encouraged in this by the abbot and his brother, a great admirer of the Orient and who passed on his taste for archeology. He is indeed very motivated for these studies.
In Mars 1804, he was admitted with a scholarship to the new institution created by Napoleon, the Lycée Imperial de Grenoble (current Lycée Stendhal), after having brilliantly passed the competition before the commissioners Villars and Lefèvre-Gineau22. He attended him until August 1807, the year his mother died23. His teacher was Father Claude-Marie Gattel, who helped him with his linguistic learning, and the botanist Dominique Villars16. He is very unhappy there, because he does not cope well with the almost military discipline of the high school, even if he often exercises the function of "corporal", which consists of monitoring the other students, and he is embarrassed by the little wealth that has his brother,16, from whom he had to ask everything24.
The close and frequent contacts with his brother Jacques-Joseph, new secretary of the Académie delphinale, put Egypt at the center of the concerns of the two brothers, since in June 1804, Jacques-Joseph made a communication to this academy on the registrations of the Rosetta Stone and published two years later his Letter on a Greek inscription from the temple of Denderah25. His horror of high school culminated around 1807 during the “Wangelis affair”, named after his only high school friend, from whom he was forcibly separated26,16. There he studied, alongside mathematics and Latin, the two great
The first to decipher hieroglyphics, Champollion is considered the father of Egyptology. He said of himself: “I am all for Egypt, it is all for me.”
On his father's side, Jean-François, known as the Jeunea, belongs to a family from Valbonnais1 originating from Valjouffrey (Isère)2,3, a village inhabited by peasants who traveled the regions as peddlers during the winter3. His grandparents, Barthélemy Champollion, born in 1694 in Valjouffrey2, who did not know how to sign3, and Marie Géréoud or Géroux, born in 1709 in Valbonnais2, married in Valbonnais in 17272,4. They have five children3 including Jacques, born February 10, 1744 in La-Roche-des-Engelas (today hamlet of Valbonnais)2,5,3, who was expelled from his native hamlet for perhaps political reasonsb,3 and must travel throughout France as a peddler before settling in Figeac6, undoubtedly invited by a cousin, a canon of the Saint-Sauveur basilica7. There, on January 28, 1773, he married Jeanne-Françoise Gualieuc, from a bourgeois family in this town; In 1772 he bought a house8 and in 1779 a bookseller's shop on Place Basse as well as a new house which would become the Champollion museum9. He had eight children10 from his wife: Guillaume, who died at birth (October 1773), Thérèse born a year later, Pétronille in 1776, Jacques-Joseph on October 8, 1778, Jean-Baptiste who died at three years old and Marie-Jeanne in 178210 .
Birth and early childhood
A strange story about the birth of Champollion tells us that his mother, affected by rheumatism to the point of preventing her from moving, was cured by a peasant who promised her, when she was forty-eight years old, the birth of a son. Indeed, Champollion was born a year after these events, on December 23, 1790 in Figeac and was baptized the same eveningf,11. The Revolution was then raging in Figeac and Champollion's father was more in the Jacobin movement even if it is doubtful whether he was police secretary12.
He taught himself to read a missal at the age of five13. He was raised mainly by his brother, but he left for Grenoble in July 1798g,14. He entered school in November of the same year14. He has great difficulty in mathematics and spelling15 (it will not be corrected until much later16…); his very bad character gives him a lot of difficulties. He has a tutor, Father Jean-Joseph Calmelsi,14 who opens him up to culture and teaches him the basics of Latin, ancient Greek and natural history17 and his big brother still takes care of him despite the distances through abundant correspondence18.
An education led by his brother
On Mars 27, 1801, he left Figeac to arrive in Grenoble, leaving his family to join his brother Jacques-Josephj who directed his education19. In fact, his big brother began by giving him lessons himself20.
The task being much too heavy, he decided to entrust his student to Abbot Dussert, a renowned teacher from Grenoblel,21. Champollion was his student from November 1802 to the summer holidays of 1804. His lessons then took place for letters with the abbot and for the rest at the central school of Grenoble21 where his drawing teacher was Louis-Joseph Jay. The abbot taught him Latin and Greek, and he was able to begin the study of Hebrew and acquire the rudiments of Arabic, Syriac and Chaldean, encouraged in this by the abbot and his brother, a great admirer of the Orient and who passed on his taste for archeology. He is indeed very motivated for these studies.
In Mars 1804, he was admitted with a scholarship to the new institution created by Napoleon, the Lycée Imperial de Grenoble (current Lycée Stendhal), after having brilliantly passed the competition before the commissioners Villars and Lefèvre-Gineau22. He attended him until August 1807, the year his mother died23. His teacher was Father Claude-Marie Gattel, who helped him with his linguistic learning, and the botanist Dominique Villars16. He is very unhappy there, because he does not cope well with the almost military discipline of the high school, even if he often exercises the function of "corporal", which consists of monitoring the other students, and he is embarrassed by the little wealth that has his brother,16, from whom he had to ask everything24.
The close and frequent contacts with his brother Jacques-Joseph, new secretary of the Académie delphinale, put Egypt at the center of the concerns of the two brothers, since in June 1804, Jacques-Joseph made a communication to this academy on the registrations of the Rosetta Stone and published two years later his Letter on a Greek inscription from the temple of Denderah25. His horror of high school culminated around 1807 during the “Wangelis affair”, named after his only high school friend, from whom he was forcibly separated26,16. There he studied, alongside mathematics and Latin, the two great
so much so, I postponed this fatigue until next year. »
On July 1, 1807, Jean-François went to Vif after the marriage of his brother Jacques-Joseph to Zoé Berriat who brought him the family house of Ombrages38 as a dowry. The young person will subsequently make numerous stays at the Domaine des Ombrages to rest38.
Detailed article: Les Champollion à Vif.
One day in 1808, on the way to the Collège de France, one of his classmates told him that the archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir had just published a complete decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Although this publication was fanciful, it decided Champollion to focus part of his studies on the deciphering of hieroglyphs39.
He managed, thanks to the Abbot of Tersan, a collector, to obtain a copy of the Rosetta Stone40, but preferred to first study papyri in cursive writing. In 1808 he discovered the principle of ligatures (grouping) of signs. He then postulated, based on analogies with one of the Coptic dialects, the absence of vowels in Egyptian writing and obtained his first conclusions on August 15, 1808, as he explained in a letter to his brother:40
“I have taken a fairly big step in this study: 1° I have proven by comparisons that all the papyri belong to the same writing system – 2° that I have the value of all the letters by the inscription of Rosetta that they are absolutely the same – 3° that I deciphered the beginning of the papyrus engraved in Denon, plate 138 […] which in Coptic means word for word: “Say: rest in peace, O Egyptian, fulfill your final destination, escape the Darkness of the tomb and death. » »
But he dwells on Etruscan history. He writes in fact: “The Etruscans are occupying me at the moment, language, medals, engraved stones, monuments, sarcophagi, everything is engraved in my head; and why ? Because the Etruscans came from Egypt. »41. But his brother calls him to order: “Study one thing instead of wandering about all the corners of the world and skimming the subject”42. He returned to his studies fearing that Étienne Quatremère would decipher the hieroglyphs before him in his Critical and Historical Research on the Egyptian Language, published in June 180943. In the spring of 1809, he began to write a Coptic grammar and
On July 1, 1807, Jean-François went to Vif after the marriage of his brother Jacques-Joseph to Zoé Berriat who brought him the family house of Ombrages38 as a dowry. The young person will subsequently make numerous stays at the Domaine des Ombrages to rest38.
Detailed article: Les Champollion à Vif.
One day in 1808, on the way to the Collège de France, one of his classmates told him that the archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir had just published a complete decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Although this publication was fanciful, it decided Champollion to focus part of his studies on the deciphering of hieroglyphs39.
He managed, thanks to the Abbot of Tersan, a collector, to obtain a copy of the Rosetta Stone40, but preferred to first study papyri in cursive writing. In 1808 he discovered the principle of ligatures (grouping) of signs. He then postulated, based on analogies with one of the Coptic dialects, the absence of vowels in Egyptian writing and obtained his first conclusions on August 15, 1808, as he explained in a letter to his brother:40
“I have taken a fairly big step in this study: 1° I have proven by comparisons that all the papyri belong to the same writing system – 2° that I have the value of all the letters by the inscription of Rosetta that they are absolutely the same – 3° that I deciphered the beginning of the papyrus engraved in Denon, plate 138 […] which in Coptic means word for word: “Say: rest in peace, O Egyptian, fulfill your final destination, escape the Darkness of the tomb and death. » »
But he dwells on Etruscan history. He writes in fact: “The Etruscans are occupying me at the moment, language, medals, engraved stones, monuments, sarcophagi, everything is engraved in my head; and why ? Because the Etruscans came from Egypt. »41. But his brother calls him to order: “Study one thing instead of wandering about all the corners of the world and skimming the subject”42. He returned to his studies fearing that Étienne Quatremère would decipher the hieroglyphs before him in his Critical and Historical Research on the Egyptian Language, published in June 180943. In the spring of 1809, he began to write a Coptic grammar and