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		mw67 on Nov 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fourier Toy Just read that he was an orphan at age 9 and then made governor of lower Egypt at age 30 by Napoleon, what a life! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier

gbog on Nov 7, 2013 [–]

And he tutored Champollion at age of 11!

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