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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Price, Clifford
• Humbert, Jean-Marcel

Titel

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Ist Teil von

• Imhotep Today, 2011, p.205-228

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although Bonaparte’s Egyptian Campaign was a failure in military terms, France nonetheless accorded a new prestige to Egypt in the early 19th century. Egyptian civilization was acknowledged as the precursor of Greece, which was in turn superseded by imperial Rome. Thanks to Napoleon, the French Empire had become the latest cultural and political ne plus ultra, at least in the eyes of the French, if not the world. Western culture, including its underlying Christianity, was held to be of the highest order. Along with other European nations, France had a duty (mission civilisatrice) to bring the less developed and ‘heathen’ world into the light. Parallels between the Roman Empire and the French Empire became dominant themes of the arts under Napoleon, with both Empires having a common Egyptian connection.