Description de l'Egypte
Subtitle: Publiee par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte (Klotz Series)
Edition: Ed. complete edition
Publisher: Benedikt Taschen Verlag
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1008
ISBN-13: 9783822889640
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Man-made objects depicted in art (architectural, mechanical, etc); Prints & printmaking; Individual Artist; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Egypt; History - Ancient & Classical; Middle East - Egypt
First sentence: "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).