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    Lettre à M. Dacier (full title: Lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques: "Letter to M. Dacier concerning the alphabet of...
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    Jean-François Champollion (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    et Lithographique de Baratier Frères. 1821. OCLC 557937746. Lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques employés par les égyptiens...
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    Retrieved July 14, 2010 (see pp. 86–195) 1822: J.-F. Champollion, Lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques (Paris, 1822) At Gallica:...
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    Champollion was moving from deciphering a script to translating the underlying language. The Lettre à M. Dacier mentioned Young as having worked on demotic...
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    dédiées à la mémoire de Jean-François Champollion à l'occasion du centenaire de la lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques (Paris:...
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    made the complete decipherment by the 1820s. In his Lettre à M. Dacier (1822), he wrote: It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic...
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    orientalist Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832). Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier is the most famous publication in all of Egyptology and is sometimes...
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    graphiques égyptiennes , par M. Champollion le jeune. Seconde édition... augmentée de la lettre à M. Dacier relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques...
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    Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (c. 1651 – 17 August 1720), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar, translator, commentator and...
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    was correct and he announced the decipherment of hieroglyphs in the Lettre à M. Dacier in 1822. Bankes, Young, and their circle responded to this announcement...
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    Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    Champollion had made big progress in decipherment by 1822—resulting in his Lettre à M. Dacier—Sacy cast all politics aside and warmly welcomed the good work of...
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    morales et politiques. It was to Dacier that Champollion sent his famous 1822 letter, known widely as Lettre à M. Dacier, revealing his discovery of how...
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    Pierre-Louis Ginguené (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    Giappichelli, 1968 "Eloge de Ginguené" by Dacier, in the Mémoires de l'institut, tom. vii.; "Discours" by M. Daunou, prefixed to the second ed. of the...
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    Antoine Houdar de la Motte (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    modernist manifesto. Anne Dacier had published (1699) a translation of the Iliad, and La Motte, who knew no Greek, made a translation (1714) in verse...
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    prevent her from receiving such partisans of the Classical writers as Anne Dacier, Father d’Olivet, or Valincour. The Marquise de Lambert was not socially...
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  • Étienne Fourmont (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    Pierre-Augustin Le Mercier, 1706) --, Examen Pacifique De La Querelle De Madame Dacier Et De Monsieur De La Motte Sur Homere. (Paris: Chez Jacques Rollin, 1716)...
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    François Guizot (redirect from M. Guizot)
    Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres elected him in 1833 as the successor to Dacier. In 1836, he was selected as a member of the Académie Française...
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    Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (category Deans of the Faculté des lettres de Paris)
    April 1760 - 28 December 1825) was a French geographer and cartographer, dean of the Faculté de lettres de Paris and a member of the Institut de France...
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  • Antoine Banier (redirect from A. Banier)
    Supplément à l'Homère de Madame Dacier, contenant la vie d'Homère, par Madame Dacier, avec une dissertation sur la durée du siège de Troie par M. l'abbé...
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    toises correspond to approximately 23 m. The apocryphal memoirs referred to a "lettre de cachet", when in fact it was a letter from the Secretary of State...
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  • List of late medieval works on the Crusades (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    pièces justificatives 1400-1444. Paris. Monstrelet, E. de., Johnes, T., Dacier, J. (1849). The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet. London. Chisholm...
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    To execute the painting of Meudon, Antoine Coypel had translated by Mme Dacier the fifth act of the tragedy of Euripides. The painting is preserved in...
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    Marquise du Chastelet, a la lettre que M. de Mairan. D'Ortous de Mairan, secretary of the Academy of Sciences, had published a set of arguments addressed...
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    Terence (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    John Adams offered his son John Quincy Adams a copy of Anne Dacier's edition of Terence with a parallel French translation, writing, "Terence is remarkable...
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     444; Zolotov 1985, p. 98. Dacier & Vuaflart 1922b, p. 23. Lépicié, François-Bernard (March 1741). "Lettre sur la mort de M. Thomassin". Mercure de France...
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  • Monstrelet, E. de., Johnes, T., Dacier, J. (1849). The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet. London. Johnes, T., Giles, J. A., Makrizi, 1., Joinville, J...
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  • Scandinaves en Terre Sainte au temps des croisades: thèse présentée à la Faculté des lettres de Paris. Paris: [s.n.]. Thadeus, N., Riant, P. Edouard Didier...
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    director of staff of the ministry, together with Dacier, drew up a report on the reorganization of the School and a draft order, proposed to Charles X by La Bourdonnaye...
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    cat. no. 124. ISBN 0810955253. OCLC 143069 – via the Internet Archive. Dacier, Émile; Vuaflart, Albert (1922). "Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau...
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