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NAKOULA EL-TURK, Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte, 1839
NAKOULA EL-TURK || DESGRANGES, Antoine Jérôme.
Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte.
Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1839.
8vo (215x130 mm), x-286-(1)-229 pages. binding : Contemporary quarter calf, flat spine. Joint splitted, first cover almost unbound.
First edition.
Work printed in French and Arabic, reproducing the Nakoula manuscript and its translation into French by Desgranges ainé Niqula Nicolas Yusuf al-Turk (1763-1828) was a scholar, historian and poet at the court of Emir Bashir Shihab II. He was born in Dayr al-Qamar (in present-day Lebanon) and accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt. He wrote an account of it, which was reproduced and translated here into French by Desgranges for the first time.
references: Alain Messaoudi [ "Les Arabisants et la France coloniale" : "Le texte que Desgranges choisit d’éditer intégralement est en revanche tout à fait élogieux pour les Français. En diffusant la relation du grec catholique Niqūlā at-Turkī, informateur de l’émir druze Baṣīr, Desgranges affirme d’ailleurs explicitement vouloir « répandre parmi les Arabes eux-mêmes la gloire du nom français "].
Price : 600 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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