Identifier: lifeofnapoleonbo00tarb (find matches)
Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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as granted as a reward for serv-ices. These scientists went out in every direction, pushing theirinvestigations up the Nile as far as Philoe, tracing the bedof the old canal from Suez to the Nile, unearthing ancientmonuments, making collections of the flora and fauna, ex-amining in detail the arts and industries of the people. Every-thing, from the inscription on the Rosetta Stone to the in-cubation of chickens, received their attention. On the re-turn of the expedition, their researches were published in amagnificent work called Description de IEgypte. Theinformation gathered by the French at this time gave agreat impetus to the study of Egyptology, and their in-vestigations on the old Suez canal led directly to the modernwork. The peaceful work of science and law-giving which Na-poleon was conducting in Egypt was interrupted by thenews that the Porte had declared war against France, andthat two Turkish armies were on their way to Egypt. InMarch he set off to Syria to meet the first.
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NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS, JULY 21, I798. Engraved by Vallot in 1838, after painting by Gros (1810). The momentchosen by the artist is that when Napoleon addressed to his soldiers that shortand famous harangue, Soldiers, from the summit of these Pyramids fortycenturies look down upon you. In the Generals escort are Murat, his headbare and his sword clasped tightly; and after him, in order, Duroc, Sulkowski,Berthier, Junot, and Eugene de Beauharnais, then sub-lieutenant, all on horse-back. On the right are Rampon, Desaix, Bertrand, and Lasalle. This picturewas ordered for the Tuileries, and was exhibited first in 1810. Napoleonpave it to one of his generals, and it did not reappear in Paris until i8?It :s now in the gallery at Versailles. Gros regarded this picture as his bestwork, and himself chose Vallot to engrave it. 92 NAPOLEONS RETURN TO PARIS 93 This Syrian expedition was a failure, ending in a retreatmade horrible not only by the enemy in the rear, but bypestilence

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