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A hugely ambitious and comprehensive work, the ten volumes of "Description de L'Egypte" were published following Napoleon Bonaparte's 1798 invasion of Egypt. This book presents highlights carefully plucked from the original masterwork in which discoveries of ancient Egyptian civilization, such... read more
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"Soldiers, from the height of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on you ..."; thus Napoleon is said to have addressed his troops shortly before the Battle of the Pyramids (21 July, 1798).
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- Gilles Neret (Author)
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