Georges Foucart (11 December 1865, in Paris – 1943) was a French historian and Egyptologist.
[1] He was the son of archaeologist Paul Foucart (1836–1926), a professor of ancient Greek studies at the Collège de France.
[2] From 1898 to 1906, he was a professor of ancient history at the University of Bordeaux, afterwards serving as a professor of history of religions at Aix-Marseille University.
From 1915 to 1928, he was director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo.
[3][4] In addition to his works on ancient Egypt, he published a few treatises associated with Madagascar, e.g.: Le commerce et la colonisation à Madagascar (1894).