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Article: EGYPT: BONAPARTE EXHIBITION INAUGURATED.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- October 15, 2008
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Egyptian and French Culture Ministers Farouq Hosni and Christine Albanel, respectively, inaugurated Monday13/10/2008 Bonaparte and Egypt, Fire and Light exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris. The exhibition showcases 350 antiques collected from several places, including the British Museum and Library, the Napoleon Museum in Arenenberg, Switzerland, the Art and History Museum in Geneva, Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Islamic and Coptic Museums in Egypt. The two Ministers inspected artifacts displayed at the exhibition which showed how Egypt and France were influenced by each other since the French Campaign in Egypt (1798-1801). The word "fire" in the ...