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A second unpublished version of the so-called Joseph Laporte's notebook on the French Expedition in Egypt and Syria. Preliminary study and remarks
Pietri, Renaud
2019 • In Peterková Hlouchová, Marie; Belohoubková, Dana; Honzl, Jiríet al. (Eds.) Current Research in Egyptology 2018. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25–28 June 2018
History of Egyptology; French Expedition in Egypt and Syria; Napoléon Bonaparte; Joseph Laporte
Abstract :
[en] In 2007 the facsimile edition of an original manuscript written by a French soldier of the Bonaparte’s Expedition in Egypt was published. Illustrated by naive coloured plates by the hand of the author, this document relates, almost day after day, the French Expedition in Egypt and Syria. It describes the main battles between the French troops and the English and Mameluks forces, but also the discovery of an exotic country and its culture at the end of the18th century, from a young revolutionary French soldier’s point of view. The purpose of this paper is to highlight a second version of this personal Description de l'Egypte, probably written shortly after the first one. A preliminary study shows that this variant, still unpublished and mentioned here for the first time, is longer and more detailed. Future researches will have to explain why those two versions were written and now coexist.
Disciplines :
History Art & art history
Author, co-author :
Pietri, Renaud ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de l'antiquité > Egyptologie
Language :
English
Title :
A second unpublished version of the so-called Joseph Laporte's notebook on the French Expedition in Egypt and Syria. Preliminary study and remarks
Publication date :
2019
Event name :
Current Research in Egyptology 2018
Event organizer :
Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Event place :
Prague, Czechia
Event date :
du 25 au 28 juin 2018
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Current Research in Egyptology 2018. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25–28 June 2018