The Champollion brothers

On the morning of 14 September 1822, in a room under the roof in Paris, Jean-François Champollion finally reached his goal. The decoding of a last cartouche had just provided him with the missing elements. A thousand-year-old civilisation had found the word... It was the culmination of a quest lasting almost 30 years. Crazy with joy, he rushes into the arms of the man who was his mentor over the decades: his elder brother, Jacques-Joseph. History has only remembered the younger brother, yet the deciphering of the hieroglyphs was that of a duo: two brothers who believed in their destiny, and one by one pushed back the obstacles to finally succeed, where generations of researchers had given up.

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