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    The Description de l'Égypte ("Description of Egypt") was a series of publications, appearing first in 1809 and continuing until the final volume appeared...
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  • 1821–1830. Description de l'Égypte - Description de l'Égypte, contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la Geographie ancienne et moderne de ce pais....
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    The Carte de l'Égypte (English: Map of Egypt), from the Description de l'Égypte, was the first triangulation-based map of Egypt, Syria and Palestine....
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    Edme-François Jomard (category Articles with short description)
    French cartographer, engineer, and archaeologist. He edited the Description de L'Égypte and was a member of the Institut d'Egypte established by Napoleon...
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    Taposiris Magna (category Articles with short description)
    conducted a survey of the architecture of the city published in the Description de l'Égypte. In the twentieth century, excavations of the site were started...
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    Sea eagle (category Articles with short description)
    naturalist Marie Jules César Savigny in his chapter on birds in the Description de l'Égypte. The two fish eagles in the genus Ichthyophaga were found to lie...
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    Cleopatra's Needles (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    In 1735, the former French consul in Egypt, Benoît de Maillet, wrote in his Description de l'Egypte: Cleopatra's Needles: After this famous monument, the...
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  • Labyrinth of Egypt (category Articles with short description)
    Commission des Sciences et des Arts (ed.). Description de l'Égypte (in French). Vol. IV: Antiquités, Descriptions. Paris, France: Imprimerie Royale. pp. 478–516...
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    Suez Canal (category Articles with short description)
    the original on 14 February 2009. Please refer to Description de l'Égypte. Descriptions de l'Égypte, Volume 11 (État Moderne) Archived 19 August 2020...
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    Antinoöpolis (category Articles with short description)
    in Description de l'Egypte), a circus, and a hippodrome nearby, were still to be seen. Illustrations of Antinoöpolis from Description de l'Égypte Ruin-field...
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