Vivant Denon
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (4 January 1747 – 27 April 1825) was a French artist, writer,
diplomat, author, and
archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for France under
Louis XV and
Louis XVI. He was appointed as the first Director of the
Louvre museum by
Napoleon after the
Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the modern museum and in the Dominique-Vivant Denon Research Center. His two-volume ''Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte'' ("Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt"), 1802, was foundational for modern
Egyptology.
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