The Linguist and the Emperor
Subtitle: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: March 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780345450678
Subjects: Hamito-Semitic Languages; Western Europe - History +; History; Science; History: World; Europe - France; History / Egypt; Europe - General; Linguistics; Middle East - Egypt; 1790-1832; Champollion, Jean-Francois,; Egyptian language; Hieroglyphics; Rosetta stone; Writing, Hieroglyphic
First sentence: FIGEAC. 1792. At the height of that violent phenomenon known as the Great Fear, violent bands roam the French countryside.