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Jean Sainte-Fare Garnot
Jean
Sainte-Fare
Garnot
was a French
Egyptologist
. He was
director
of the
Institut français d'archéologie orientale
from
1953
to
1959
, professor in
Sorbonne
, director of studies at the
École pratique des hautes études
, president of the
French society
of
Egyptology
and
correspondent
of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
.
He was
the father
of
Nicolas
Sainte-Fare Garnot,
conservative
of the
Musée Jacquemart-André
from 1993 till
2015
, and the
grandfather
of
Florent
Sainte-Fare Garnot,
mayor
of
Nevers
from
2010
till
2014
.