his administration, he supported orientalist Jean-François Champollion and created the "Musée Egyptien" within the Louvre. In his lifetime, Blacas amassed a rich antiquities collection that Joseph Toussaint Reinaud described in part under the title "Description des monuments musulmans du cabinet du duc de Blacas" (Description of the Muslim objects in the cabinet of the Duke of Blacas) in 1828. In 1866, his descendants sold most of his remaining collection to the British Museum, where it is still today. In 1830, Blacas followed the Bourbons into exile. Later, he was instrumental in the dismissal of the Duchess of Gontaut as the governess to the king's grandchildren in fear of her relatively liberal political views. In 1838, he was created Fürst von Blacas d'Aulps (Prince of Blacas and Aulps) by the Emperor of Austria on 16 May 1837. He died on 17 November 1839 and was buried next to the Bourbon crypt of the Kostanjevica Monastery in Görz, Austria, now on the Slovenian side of the border in Nova Gorica. His wife died in Paris on 10 October 1856. He was succeeded as Duke of Blacas by his son Louis, who was also both an antiquarian and a Legitimist. References Extract from an article by the genealogist Pierre Nicolas, with his kind permission. To see the whole article site of the comte de Chambord, at the footnote "son entourage". Geneall.net 1771 births 1839 deaths Burials at Kostanjevica Monastery Dukes of Blacas d'Aulps French antiquarians French classical scholars French diplomats French Egyptologists French male writers French Ultra-royalists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Peers of France People associated with the Louvre People from Avignon People of the Ancien Régime People of the French Revolution Princes of Blacas d'Aulps