Lyon et la naissance de l'égyptologie. François Artaud, Jean-François Champollion. Grèce and were both sensitive to

and were both sensitive to black beauty

How can we capture the traces

dans un langage clair et accessible

renewed itself regularly

Lyon et la naissance de l'égyptologie. François Artaud, Jean-François Champollion. Grèce and were both sensitive toThe Muse des Beaux Arts de Lyon is associated with the celebration of the bicentenary of the decipherment of hieroglyphs by Jean Franois Champollion, in 1822, through the scientific and friendly relationship maintained for more than twenty years by the first director of the Muse de Lyon, Franois Artaud (1767 1838), and Jean Franois Champollion (1790 1832). At a time when hieroglyphic inscriptions were few in number in the collections, Artaud worked to