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A group of French savants huddle together at the top of a co
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A group of French savants huddle together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the accompanying 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoléon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after himself, 1799.

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Keywords: Gaspard Monge; Claude Louis Berthollet; Constantin Francois Volney; Napoléon I; Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier; Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; Déodat de Gratet de Dolomieu; Nicolas-Antoine Nouet; Quesnot; Pierre Mechain; Maris Jules César Savigny; Pierre Joseph Redouté; Nicolas-René-Dufriche Desgenettes; Dominique-Jean Larrey; Commission des sciences et des arts (France); James Gillray
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