Champollion (1790-1832) is considered the father of modern Egyptology. As a youth, he devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages and by the age of 19 was Professor of History at Grenoble. In 1826 he was appointed conservator of the Egyptian collections at the Louvre, of which the present volume is his catalogue. A notice pasted to the verso of the title page indicates that due to the rearrangement of the Egyptian collection the catalogue (which is a room-by-room description of objects) no longer corresponds, but because of the precision of the descriptions it will still be offered to visitors to the gallery.