# René Dussaud · Person

> Louvre curator of Near Eastern antiquities and Semitic epigrapher, editor of the Ahiram sarcophagus inscription, who argued in 1927 that the Glozel…

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# René Dussaud

Louvre curator of Near Eastern antiquities and Semitic epigrapher, editor of the Ahiram sarcophagus inscription, who argued in 1927 that the Glozel alphabet was copied from late Phoenician and that the tablets were modern; convicted of libel against Fradin in 1932 with a symbolic penalty. **1868–1958.**

[Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel)[2 events][2 sources]

René Dussaud is french orientalist and epigrapher (1868-1958), curator at the Louvre, who made the epigraphic case that the Glozel inscriptions are forgeries. (1868–1958), and appears in the record of Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field as louvre curator of Near Eastern antiquities and Semitic epigrapher, editor of the Ahiram sarcophagus inscription, who argued in 1927 that the Glozel alphabet was copied from late Phoenician and that the tablets were modern; convicted of libel against Fradin in 1932 with a symbolic penalty.

Two events on the site involve Dussaud, from Dussaud argues the alphabet was copied from late Phoenician (1927) to The fraud case against Émile Fradin is dismissed (26 Jun 1931).

Three questions rest in part on what Dussaud did or said, among them “Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?”, which stands open: 4 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field**

2 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel)

[Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTPBXAPB0/do-the-glozel-signs-form-a-writing-system-that-records-a)Open: 4 answers, none ahead

[Which published alphabets do the Glozel signs resemble, and could a forger of the 1920s have drawn on them?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTR4X4Q7P/which-published-alphabets-do-the-glozel-signs-resemble-and)Open: no answer ahead yet

[Were the signs on the dated tablets cut before or after firing?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTWMC61QD/were-the-signs-on-the-dated-tablets-cut-before-or-after)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

## What René Dussaud did 2

1927[Dussaud argues the alphabet was copied from late Phoenician](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/events/EVT0DEDR0CV1E9Y/dussaud-argues-the-alphabet-was-copied-from-late-phoenician)

at [Musée du Louvre, Paris](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D1P8WV43TQE/musee-du-louvre-paris)

26 Jun 1931[The fraud case against Émile Fradin is dismissed](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/events/EVT0DEDR0TGPM0Y/the-fraud-case-against-emile-fradin-is-dismissed)

with [Émile Fradin](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/FIG0DEDMD1T0QJ5/emile-fradin)

## Worked with 1

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**Émile Fradin**

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## Places 1

[Musée du Louvre, Paris](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D1P8WV43TQE/musee-du-louvre-paris)

museum

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## Sources 2

[Autour des inscriptions de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJP4XXMKB/autour-des-inscriptions-de-glozel)

SRC

[The News from Glozel: Media, Scandal, and the Making of French Archaeology, ca. 1927](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK7NPVVKH/the-news-from-glozel-media-scandal-and-the-making-of-french)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). René Dussaud [Person FIG0DEDME1N8V0N]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDME1N8V0N
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Born

1868-12-24

Died

1958-03-17

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epigrapher, critic, defendant in the libel case

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French orientalist and epigrapher (1868-1958), curator at the Louvre, who made the epigraphic case that the Glozel inscriptions are forgeries.

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