Yousef & Riffo
“Drovetti had two agents at Thebes; the one, Yousef, a French Mamelouk, was excavating the western bank of the Nile. Yousef (originally a drummer, and left behind, when very young, at the time of the French army leaving Egypt. He is now a zealous Mahometan, of an intrepid character and very intellingent.) had his habitation in a sepulchral grotto at Qournah. The other, named Riffo [Jean Jacques Rifaud, 1786-1852], was exploring and digging within the local of the temple of Karnack. This last is a Marseillese, small in stature, but bold, enterprising, and choleric; occasionally beating the Arabs who had neither leisure nor taste to comprehend the Provençal tongue.”
From Travels in Egypt
by Count de Forbin, 1817-18
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