Description de l' Egypte.: Publiee par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte. Dreisprachige Ausgabe französisch, englisch, deutsch.

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Benedikt Taschen, 1997 - Architecture - 1007 pages
Napoleon's attempt to conquer Egypt in 1798 was a mad dream, a fiasco, but it gave rise to a new science: Egyptology. The 3000 illustrations brought back from the expedition were published by order of the Emperor. They constitute invaluable testimony and we have reproduced them in full.

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