Camino Photo of the Day: Sitting on the Rosetta Stone

After praying Vespers in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel in Saint-Sauveur, I ran down to La place des Écritures. A bit of background is probably an order. Jean-François Champollion was a native of Figeac. He famously cracked the code on the Rosetta Stone and successfully translated Egyptian hieroglyphics for the first time. There’s a museum here dedicated to him and his work, and there is also La place des Écritures, which contains, embedded in the floor of the square, a giant reproduction of the Rosetta Stone carved in black granite. I ran into some of the Australians, and one of them kindly got a photo of me sitting up on it.

Date: 29 August 2023
Place: Figeac, Lot Département, Region of Occitanie, France

Maps!