French Egyptologist who worked at Tanis and Byblos. He conducted major excavations of the New Empire (c 1567-525 BC) capital at Tanis, in the Nile Delta, discovering, in particular, funerary treasures from the 21st and 22nd dynasties. At his first major excavation at Byblos (modern Jubayl, Lebanon), one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns in the world, he found what was then believed to be the earliest alphabetical writing and published his researches in "Byblos et l'Égypte" (1928). He published "La Nécropole royale de Tanis" 3 vol. (1947-60; "The Royal Cemetery at Tanis") and "Everyday Life in the Days of Ramesses the Great" (1958) and "Eternal Egypt" (1964).