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The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone.(Book Review)
DANIEL MEYERSON. Ballantille, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-345-45067-1
This florid adventure tale, presented in colorful episodes that read as if drawn from a Hollywood film treatment, interweaves Napoleon's obsessive empire building with Jean Francois Champollion's determined mission to crack the code of hieroglyphics. The story hinges on the long, drawn-out Napoleonic campaign in Egypt (1798-1801), during which the Rosetta stone, which enabled Champollion's breakthrough, was discovered. Meyerson, an Ellis Fellow at Columbia and the author of a previous book on despots, conjures two fanatic visionaries, lingering on Napoleon's insecurities and cruelties and on Champollion's …
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