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    The Institut d'Égypte or Egyptian Scientific Institute is a learned society in Cairo specializing in Egyptology. It was established in 1798 by Napoleon...
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    p. 127. ISBN 978-0-8014-5096-9. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctt1xx62b. "The 'Institut d'Égypte' and the Description de l'Égypte". napoleon.org. Retrieved 2020-06-01...
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    (1798 to 1801) and was a member of the mathematics section of the Institut d'Égypte. Malus became a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1810. In 1810...
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    mapping out roads and building mills to supply food. They founded the Institut d'Égypte with the aim of propagating Enlightenment values in Egypt through...
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    to Napoleon's newly founded scientific association in Cairo, the Institut d'Égypte, in a report by Commission member Michel Ange Lancret noting that...
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    in 1798, as scientific adviser, and was appointed secretary of the Institut d'Égypte. Cut off from France by the British fleet, he organized the workshops...
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    picture. Dom Raphaël de Monachis, Greek-Egyptian monk and member of the Institut d'Égypte, is depicted among the clergymen, standing to the right of the Bishop...
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    become members of the Institut d'Egypte. In late August 1798, on the order of Napoleon also known as N.P., the Institut d'Égypte was founded in the palace...
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    on 8 October 1800, Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle presented before the Institut d'Égypte in Cairo the first technical considerations on the transport and erection...
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    to Egypt as part of the natural history and physics section of the Institut d'Égypte; 151 scientists and artists participated in the expedition, including...
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    Egypt, taking part with Berthollet in the scientific work of the Institut d'Égypte and the Egyptian Institute of Sciences and Arts. They accompanied...
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    had been discovered in mid-July 1799 by French scientists of the Institut d'Égypte. Menou refused to hand them over, claiming they belonged to the institute...
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    Bachatly, “Un membre orientale du Premier Institut d'Égypte, Don Raphaël,” Bulletin de l'Institut d'Égypte 17 (1935): 237–60. 66 Moussa, S. (2012). Le...
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    1790. He was made a member of the Institut d'Égypte on 7 September 1798, joining its physics section during the Institut's third session. From 3 March 1795...
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  • but most have been all but forgotten. Some became members of the Institut d'Égypte. Pierre-Onésime Adnès the elder (1760–1819), mechanic Simon-Onésime...
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  • Objects stolen from the Mosque of Taghribirdi and Al-Rifai Mosque. Institut d'Égypte, destroyed on 17 December 2011 during anti-government demonstrations...
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    expedition to Egypt as part of the arts and literature section of the Institut d'Égypte, and thus found the opportunity of gathering the materials for his...
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    and was a member of the physics and natural history section of the Institut d'Égypte. In April, 1789 Berthollet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...
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    Jules-César Savigny: sa Vie et son Oeuvre: la Vie de Savigny". Mémoires, Institut d'Égypte. 17: 1–111. "Savignya DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science"...
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    Egypt of June 1798 as part of the political economy section of the Institut d'Égypte, and after the capture of Cairo, he edited the official journal there...
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    Egypt, as part of the natural history and physics section of the Institut d'Égypte. In March 1799 Dolomieu became ill and was forced to leave Alexandria...
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    language academies in the Arab world and abroad, most notably the Institut d'Égypte. In 1826, Muhammad Ali sent a scholarly mission from Egypt to France...
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  • l'expédition d'Égypte, mis en ordre et publiés par le baron Marc de Villiers du Terrage, Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit, 1899, et L'expédition d'Égypte 1798-1801...
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    professor of surgery in 1790. On 22 August 1798 he became a member of the Institut d'Égypte. In 1802 he became a surgeon in a private hospital that later was...
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    French Commission des Sciences et des Arts and the scholars of the Institut d'Egypte. At the Capitulation, the British discovered the French warships Cause...
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  • the Institut de France, comprised the Commission des Sciences et Arts d'Égypte. In late August 1798, about a third of them became members of Institut d'Egypte...
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    of Napoleon's newly founded scientific association in Cairo, the Institut d'Égypte. In the report he noted that it contained three inscriptions, the...
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    of interests and numerous publications, he became a fellow of the Institut d'Égypte, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Asiatic Society in...
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  • Medicine Member of the Clinical Society of Ain Shams Medicine Member of Institut d'Égypte Member of the Technical Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science...
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    Egypt and Syria and on 22 August 1798 he was made a member of the Institut d'Égypte, in the literature and arts section. He was taken on the trip to the...
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