Emmanuel de Rougé
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Biography
He was born on 11 April 1811, in Paris, 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.
He died on 27 December 1872, in Château de Bois-Dauphin to Precigne, Sarthe.
Busts of de Rouge are held in the Louvre and the Cairo Museum in Egypt.
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