''Vicomte'' Olivier Charles Camille Emmanuel de Rouge (11 April 1811 – 27 December 1872) was a French

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, philologist and a member of the House of Rougé.

Biography

He was born on 11 April 1811, in

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, the son of Charles Camille Augustin de Rougé, Count de Rougé and Adelaide Charlotte de la Porte de Riantz (1790–1852). He was a member of the Order of the

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, member of the

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, curator of the Egyptian Museum of the

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(1849), State Councillor (1854) and professor of Egyptian archaeology at the

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(1864). He wrote several books on Egypt and its history. He died on 27 December 1872, in Château de Bois-Dauphin to Precigne,

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. Busts of de Rouge are held in the Louvre and the

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in Egypt.

Publications

* ''Mémoire sur l'inscription du tombeau d'Ahmès, chef des nautoniers'' (1851) * ''Le Poème de Pentaour'' (1861) * ''Rituel funéraire des anciens égyptiens'' (1861–1863) * ''Recherches sur les monuments qu'on peut attribuer aux six premières dynasties de Manéthon'' (1865) * ''Chrestomathie égyptienne, ou Choix de textes égyptiens transcrits, traduits et accompagnés d'un commentaire perpétuel et précédés d'un abrégé grammatical'' (1867–1876) * ''Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques copiées en Égypte pendant la mission scientifique de M. le Vte Emmanuel de Rougé, publiées par M. le Vte Jacques de Rougé'' (4 volumes, 1877–1879) * ''Œuvres diverses'' (6 volumes, 1907–1918) 6 gallica.bnf.fr, Vol 6
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References

1811 births 1872 deaths Marquesses of Rougé French Egyptologists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres People associated with the Louvre {{France-noble-stub