Lettres It M. la Due de Illness d'Aulps, relatives au blued() Royal Emden de Turin; Paris, 1824.25.) His work on the Egyptian gods came out In parts, but has never been completed—' Pantheon Egyptian, ou Collection des Personnages Mythologiques de l'aneienne Egypte, d'apres lea Monumens, avec un texts explicatif.' Charles X.
having determined to purchase a valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities, just arrived at Leghorn, for the museum at Paris, Chum polite° was appointed, through the Duke of Macao, to proceed to Italy for the purpose of examining and valuing them. From Leghorn ho proceeded to Rome and Naples, in the company of Rosellini. On his return to Paris he was named Director of the Egyptian Museum at the Louvre, of which he published a description—' Notice descriptive des Monumens Egyptiens du Muses Charles X.,' 1827. In 1828 the King of France appointed a scientific expedition to proceed to Egypt, in order to examine the monuments of that country, under Chem pollion'a direction. At the same time the Grand-Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II., appointed a similar expedition for the same object, at the head of which he placed Roaellini, Champollion'a friend. The two expeditions, consisting of six Frenchmen and six Tuscans, sailed together from Toulon, and arrived at Alexandria in August 1828. Champollion remained in Egypt till the end of 1829, during which time he wrote the letters which are published under the title of Lettres &rites d'Egypto et de Nubie en I828-9,' 8vo, Paris, 1833. On his return to France, in 1830, he was made a member of the Institute, and subsequently appointed, by Louis Philippe, Professor of Egyptian Antiquities in the College of France. It was agreed between the French and Tuscan governments that the result of the observations of the two expeditions should be published together in one work, in French and Italian, tinder the direction of Champollion and Roaellini, Monumena de l'.gypte et de la Nubie, eonaideres par rapport h l'Histoire, la Religion, et les Usages Civils et Domestiques do l'An cicnne Egypte,' &c. The work began to appear in parts in 1832. In the letter-press accompanying this publication, Roaellini has not only adopted the general system of Champollion, but has carried it much farther than his friend. A sharp criticism upon it by Cataldo Jannelli
was published in No. 19 of the 'Progresso,' a Neapolitan journal, Naples, 1335. While Champollion was preparing the first part of the new work for the press, he was attacked by a paralytio fit, and died at Paris on the 5th of March 1832.
Champollion'a merits as a laborious student of Egyptian archmology are undeniable ; but his judgment seems not to have been sound, his deductions from his premises not always correct, and his learning (except on Egyptian antiquities) neither extensive nor exact. He corrected Dr. Young's first crude notions as to the phonetic symbols, and considerably extended the number of known signs ; and this may perhaps lead to further results. Had he lived longer he might have modified some of his fOrmer assertions, and entered perhaps upon a safer path of investigation. For the controversy concerning the general application of the phonetio alphabet, see vol ii. of the 'Egyptian Antiquities' of the British Museum, published in the ' Library of Entertaining Knowledge,' ch. x., on the Rosetta Stone,' where the subject is fully investigated. See also Professor Koaegarten, 'De prisca iEgyptiornm Literature Comraerstatio,' 4to, 1828; Greppo'a Essay on the Hieroglyphic System of Champollion,' translated by Stuart, Boston, 1830. Itosellini wrote a biographical notice of Cham pollion in the Florence Antologia ' for April 1832. Champollion made a Coptic Grammar and Dictionary, which remained unpublished at his death, but which was surreptitiously published at Rome in 1842. The manuscripts of Champollion were purchased by the French govern ment in 1833, with a view to their publication. The editing of them was confided to M. Chompellion Figeac, and they appeared in 1834-48. A monument was erected by the town-council to the memory of Cham pollion in the principal place of his native town. His bust was placed in the Museum of Versailles by order of Louis Philippe, and copies of it were made by order of the Minister of the Interior for the town of Figeac, the Museum of Grenoble, and the library of the Institute.