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Acknowledgments | p. 7 |
Prologue: Egyptomania | p. 9 |
Hieroglyphic 'Delirium' before Champollion | p. 15 |
A Revolutionary Childhood | p. 28 |
Reluctant Schoolboy | p. 39 |
Egypt Encountered | p. 49 |
Paris and the Rosetta Stone | p. 57 |
Teenage Professor | p. 69 |
The Race Begins | p. 80 |
Napoleon and Champollion | p. 92 |
Exile and Revolt | p. 109 |
Breakthrough | p. 127 |
An Egyptian Renaissance | p. 151 |
Curator at the Louvre | p. 167 |
To Egypt, At Last | p. 176 |
In Search of Ramesses | p. 205 |
First Professor of Egyptology | p. 226 |
The Hieroglyphs after Champollion | p. 237 |
Postscript: Geniuses and Polymaths | p. 253 |
Notes and references | p. 255 |
Bibliography | p. 263 |
List of illustrations | p. 267 |
Index | p. 269 |
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