Egypt
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- Book Review: The Zodiac Of Paris
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Patricia Johnston and Glenn Palmer) Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science....
- Exhibition: Bonaparte And Egypt... Fire And Light
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The 1798 Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte was undoubtedly a military failure, but the battalion of 160 scientists -- and certain brilliant officers -- added up to a force that generated a celebrated episode...
- Book Review: Napoleon’s Egypt
New York Times (Review by Tom Reiss) “Napoleon’s Egypt” by Juan Cole In early 1798 the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon...
- Exhibition: The Eye Of Josephine At Atlanta's High Museum
Aiken Standard (Tom Mack) Napoleon Bonaparte once said that the only thing that came between him and his first wife Josephine were her debts. Even before she was crowned Empress of France, Josephine, who was born and raised on a sugar plantation in the...
- Exhibition: Description De L'egypte In Missouri
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15849664.htm "Historians at the Linda Hall Library wanted to celebrate the library’s expansion in a big way. So, they are preparing a display of giant books that describe Napoleon’s 1798 military...
Egypt
Napoleon's Egypt Invasion Sparked Art Craze, Gave Paris Its Own
Bloomberg
The mission was to bring freedom and regime change to the Arabs. It ended in disaster.
I'm referring, of course, to Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, which eventually led to the French army's surrender to the British. No sooner had they pulled out, than France was gripped by Egyptian fever. Sphinxes, hieroglyphs, and lotus leaves proliferated on furniture, jewelry and china. Classical scholars watched in dismay as Egyptology became the preferred discipline in the scientific community.
A show at Paris's Institut du Monde Arabe displays the many cultural fruits of the Egyptian invasion. ``Bonaparte et l'Egypte -- Feu et Lumieres (1769-1869)'' spans the century that began with Napoleon's birth (and that of Muhammad Ali, founder of the dynasty that ruled Egypt until 1952,) and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal.
Some 350 objects are displayed in more or less chronological order, starting with the fantastic ideas that 18th-century France entertained about the land of the pharaohs. The freemasons, for instance, copied what they believed were pharaonic rituals.
- Book Review: The Zodiac Of Paris
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Patricia Johnston and Glenn Palmer) Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science....
- Exhibition: Bonaparte And Egypt... Fire And Light
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The 1798 Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte was undoubtedly a military failure, but the battalion of 160 scientists -- and certain brilliant officers -- added up to a force that generated a celebrated episode...
- Book Review: Napoleon’s Egypt
New York Times (Review by Tom Reiss) “Napoleon’s Egypt” by Juan Cole In early 1798 the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon...
- Exhibition: The Eye Of Josephine At Atlanta's High Museum
Aiken Standard (Tom Mack) Napoleon Bonaparte once said that the only thing that came between him and his first wife Josephine were her debts. Even before she was crowned Empress of France, Josephine, who was born and raised on a sugar plantation in the...
- Exhibition: Description De L'egypte In Missouri
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15849664.htm "Historians at the Linda Hall Library wanted to celebrate the library’s expansion in a big way. So, they are preparing a display of giant books that describe Napoleon’s 1798 military...