Institut d’Egypte

Institut d’Egypte

The Institut d’Égypte was a learned academy formed by Napoleon Bonaparte to carry out research during his Egyptian campaign.

Location
Near Tahrir and Egyptian parliament

Holdings
Reorganized and recatalogued, friendly, and useful library, especially for pre-1914 books, bulletins, and statistical compendiums, mostly in French. (John Chalcraft, The Striking Cabbies of Cairo, p. 14)

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