Georges Foucart


Georges Foucart was a French historian and Egyptologist. He was the son of archaeologist Paul Foucart, a professor of ancient Greek studies at the Collège de France.
From 1898 to 1906, he was a professor of ancient history at the University of Bordeaux, afterwards serving as a professor of history of religions at Aix-Marseille University. From 1915 to 1928, he was director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo.

Selected works

In addition to his works on ancient Egypt, he published a few treatises associated with Madagascar, e.g.: Le commerce et la colonisation à Madagascar.