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The Linguist and the Emperor : Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher
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The Linguist and the Emperor : Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone Paperback - 2005

by Meyerson, Daniel

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Daniel Meyerson, an Ellis Fellow at Columbia University, has taught writing at Columbia, New York University, and Bennington College. He is the author of Blood and Splendor: The Lives of Five Tyrants, From Nero to Saddam Hussein. He lives in New York City.


From the Hardcover edition.

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FIGEAC. 1792. At the height of that violent phenomenon known as the Great Fear, violent bands roam the French countryside.

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“[A] page turner . . . entertaining history that’s told with gusto and goes down like a pleasant aperitif.”
The Washington Post Book World


“COMPELLING . . . A PASSIONATE LINGUISTIC LOVE AFFAIR.”
Time

“[Meyerson] has inhaled his rich material. It is as if his normal respiration were in cursive, demotic, or hieratic scripts, and acrophonic principles–as if he had always been able to read obelisks and coffins.”
–Harper’s

About the author

Daniel Meyerson, an Ellis Fellow at Columbia University, has taught writing at Columbia, New York University, and Bennington College. He is the author of "Blood and Splendor: The Lives of Five Tyrants, From Nero to Saddam Hussein." He lives in New York City.

"From the Hardcover edition."