François Daleau. Fondateur de l’archéologie préhistorique. Préhistoire European Capital of Culture in

European Capital of Culture in 2013

Egiziana and the Vicino Oriente Antico

and a corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts

popular and collaborative nature of his work

the blind bard

François Daleau. Fondateur de l’archéologie préhistorique. Préhistoire European Capital of Culture inThe aim of this book is to uncover what guided Franois Daleau (1845 1927) in his research during the decades that proved crucial to the history of Paleolithic prehistory, a period in which he was heavily involved with his excavations of the decorated cave of Pair non Pair. The name of Franois Daleau has now been forgotten, but in his time he was recognized by the greatest. This work was made possible by examining the thousands of handwritten pages