Among his best-known publications are the large "Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique" (3 vols., Paris, 1895–1897, translated into English by Mrs McClure for the S.P.C.K.), displaying the history of the whole of the nearer East from the beginnings to the conquest by Alexander; a smaller "Histoire des peuples de l'Orient", 1 vol., of the same scope, which passed through six editions from 1875 to 1904; "Etudes de mythologie et d'archéologie égyptiennes" (Paris, 1893, etc.), a collection of reviews and essays originally published in various journals, and especially important as contributions to the study of Ancient Egyptian religion; "L'Archéologie égyptienne" (1907), of which several editions have been published in English. He also established the journal "Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes"; the "Bibliothèque égyptologique", in which the scattered essays of the French Egyptologists are collected, with biographies, etc.; and the "Annales du service des antiquités de l'Egypte", a repository for reports on official excavations, etc.