Dom Raphaël de Monachis, Champollion's Coptic Teacher

Dom Raphaël de Monachis (marked blue), a Greek Catholic of Syrian ancestry born in Egypt, left Egypt to France after the Napoleonic Campaign and helped Champollion in the decipherment of the hieroglyphs. He is here portrayed in the famous painting La Sacre de Napoléon by Jacques-Louis David (1806). Behind dom Raphaël there is the Ottoman Ambassador in Paris (yellow mark)

For more info about dom Raphaël, check out the “Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française” by François Pouillon (2008):

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