Before I visited Figeac I didn't know that the great Champollion who deciphered the Rosetta stone came from there.  But he did.  They have named a square and a museum in his honour.  Cairo has been less generous in naming only a street after him.

He's also celebrated on various postcards.  I don't know whether the one I bought is telling us anything else about him or if it's just an illustration of how much care went into male grooming in ancient Egypt.  

His great linguistic skills are not shared by all his modern fellow townsmen for when I asked for a postage stamp the shopkeeper offered me one for Belgium.