With Grey History: The French Revolution and Napoleon
In 1798, an army of soldiers and scientists invaded Egypt. At their head, the young general Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Expedition had an enormous impact on Egypt’s political history, and Egyptology as a field of scholarly inquiry. Remarkable discoveries, and dedicated study, led to an explosion in knowledge about the ancient past. Today, William Clark of Grey History: The French Revolution & Napoleon joins me to discuss these momentous undertakings. And, of course, we talk about the new film “Napoleon,” directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby.
Links and details:
- William Clark’s Grey History: The French Revolution & Napoleon podcast.
- Logo image – Maurice Orange, Napoleon at the Pyramids 1895.
- The Description of Egypt complete digital copy at Bibliotecha Alexandrina.
- The Description of Egypt complete digital copy at Library of Congress.
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Plates from Le Description de l’Egypte, showing the temple of Amunhotep III at Elephantine (now lost).
Plates from Le Description de l’Egypte, showing the temple of Amunhotep III at Elephantine (now lost).
Plates from Le Description de l’Egypte, showing the pyramids of Giza, one of the first scientific studies.
Plates from Le Description de l’Egypte, showing the pyramids of Giza, one of the first scientific studies.
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Bibliography
- ‘Abd al-Rahman al- Jabarti’, Oxford Reference, https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100014918.
- E. Prusskaya, ‘Arab Chronicles as a Source for Studying Bonaparte’s Expedition to Egypt’, Napoleonica. LaRevue 24 (2015), 48–60.
- P. Mainterot, ‘France’, in A. Bednarski et al. (eds), A History of World Egyptology (Cambridge, 2020), 68–90.
- S. Ikram and A. Omar, ‘Egypt’, in A. Bednarski et al. (eds), A History of World Egyptology (Cambridge, 2020), 25–67.
- A. Bednarski et al. (eds), ‘The Prehistory of Egyptology’, A History of World Egyptology (Cambridge, 2020), 8–24.
- A. Bednarski et al. (eds), A History of World Egyptology (Cambridge, 2020).
- O. El Daly, Egyptology: The Missing Millennium – Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings (2005).
- L. Greener, The Discovery of Egypt (1966).
- R. Asprey, The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte (2000).
