Champollion began writing his Grammaire on his return from Egypt to France on 5 March 1830, it contains a number of drawings reproduced in Egypt, by Champollion himself and his assistants;[1] but he died in 1832 without being able to publish it. It was his brother, Jacques-Joseph Champollion, who would handle its publication in 1836. Marcellin Jobard, a lithographer from Brussels, whom claimed to have advised Champollion the use of lithography for the printing of the Grammaire égyptienne.[2] The printing combines lithography and typography, with lithographic stone transfer methods improved by Jules Feuquières, used by Charles Motte [fr]'s lithographic workshop in Paris, which was responsible for the lithographic printing process of the Grammaire.