The Vicomte Olivier Charles Camille Emmanuel de Rouge (11 April 1811, in Paris – 27 December 1872, in Château de Bois-Dauphin to Precigne, Sarthe) was an Egyptologist[1] and philologist French member of the House of Rougé.
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He was 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 Legion of Honour, member of the Institut de France, curator of the Egyptian Museum of the Louvre (1849), State Councillor (1854) and professor of Egyptian archaeology at the Collège de France (1864). He wrote several books on Egypt and its history.[2]
Busts of Vicomte Emmanuel are held in the Louvre and the Museum of Cairo in Egypt.
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Chair of Egyptian Philology and Archeology at the Collège de France 1860–1872 |
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