Yves Champollion was born 1956 in Paris, France; he is related to the famous Aegyptologist J-F Champollion. He has traveled extensively in the 70s and the 80s both to escape so-called higher studies and to quench his thirst for languages and cultures. Having learned enough languages and traveled enough miles, he met a Japanese girl in London, who turned into his fiancée in Germany, then turned into his wife in New York until both settled down in Paris. He got into the computing craze of the eighties, produced various pieces of software (such as "Le Tableur Comptable", an iconoclastic spreadsheet designed for accountants), then got into free-lance translation then into programming translation tools such as Wordfast—all for the sheer love and pleasure of it. Hobbies include traveling and learning languages (after French, Latin, German and English taught by the Fathers of Saint Vincent's College, to whom his heartfelt gratitude is hereby expressed, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian were added, as well as some Japanese and, last but not least, Shangana, a Zulu-related language of Southern Mozambique, where he sponsors a secondary school.
Mr. Champollion can be reached at yves@champollion.net
