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3 unusual facts about Institut d'Égypte


Description de l'Égypte

In late August 1798, on the order of Napoleon also known as N.P., the Institute of Egypt (l'Institut d'Égypte) was founded in the palace of Hassan-Kashif on the outskirts of Cairo, with Gaspard Monge as president.

Institut d'Égypte

A Molotov cocktail thrown by a protester went through one of the windows of the Institut accidentally or deliberately.

Mostafa El-Abbadi

A recipient of the Order of Merit (Egypt), El-Abbadi is a member of Egypt's Supreme Council of Culture (SCC), Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), and l'Institut d'Égypte.


Aston Centre for Europe

The Aston Centre for Europe delivers a number of its Masters programmes in co-operation with the Institut d'études politiques de Lille (Sciences-Po, Lille), the Institut d'études politiques de Rennes (Sciences-Po, Rennes), and the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany.

Cristian Pârvulescu

Born in Ploieşti, Pârvulescu graduated in 1989 from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy, and went on to finish his education at the Paris-based Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.

Description de l'Égypte

The plates have been republished partly in different works, most notable by "Bibliotheque Image", Taschen GmbH, and "Institut De Orient" in 1988 and a subsequent edition in 1990.

Disseny Hub Barcelona

The collection was prepared by the Agència Catalana de Turisme, the Direcció General de Turisme and Artesania Catalunya of CCAM, the Foment de les Arts i el Disseny (FAD), the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC).

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

François Fourquet

Fourquet studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris After an internship at La Borde clinic in 1965, he worked there as administrative secretary under Félix Guattari from 1966 to 1972.

Françoise Cachin

Cachin studied art history under André Chastel at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie of the University of Paris.

French Consulate General, San Francisco

Born in Saint-Mandé 1972, Romain Serman is an alumnus of Centre universitaire d’études politiques of Nancy and l’Institut d’études politiques of Paris before moving on to the École nationale d'administration.

Gérard Araud

Gérard Araud was born in Marseille and graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, the École nationale d'administration, the École polytechnique and the École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique and joined the diplomatic corps in 1982.

Honoré N. Razafindramiandra

Honoré N. Razafindramiandra was an Alma mater of Institut d'études politiques de Paris and graduated from the Public Service Division in 1965.

Institut d'Administration des Entreprises

The Réseau is related to 32 Laboratory of research including 7 Joint Research Units associated with the CNRS.

Institut d'Estudis Occitans

The IEO is divided into regional and departmental sections and local circles that cover the whole of the country from the cities (called in vernacular language) of Lemòtges and Clarmont up north to Marselha, Tolosa or Bordèu down south.

Luís Guillermo Peréz

He gained his undergraduate degree from the National University of Colombia and has done graduate study at the Institute for Higher Studies in Development, External University of Colombia, and political science at Sciences Po Bordeaux and the Institute of Political Studies, Brussels.

Maurice Duverger

A member of Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français from age 20, Maurice Duverger completed his studies in from the Bordeaux Department of Law in 1942, before lecturing in law at Poitiers in 1942, and Bordeaux in 1943 (where he would, in 1948, found the Institut d'Études Politiques as its first director).

Michel Serre

Moreover, the Église de la Pomme displays Annonciation, saint Jean-Baptiste et saint Étienne while the Église Saint-Sébastien in Allauch has Mort de Saint-Joseph and La fuite en Égypte.

Pascal Lorot

Pascal Lorot is an economics PhD from the l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP) and a political science PhD from Panthéon-Assas University.

Richard Yarborough

In Lire en Amérique. Paris, France: Institut d'Etudes Anglophones, Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, 1993: 33-46.

Romain Poirot-Lellig

He received a Master’s Degree in International Affairs and international security from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and a Master’s Degree in Corporate Management from the Université Paris IX Dauphine.

Serge Weinberg

Serge Weinberg was trained as a Civil Servant after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Paris and from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Slab serif

Following Napoleon's Egyptian campaign and dissemination of images and descriptions via publications like Description de l'Égypte (1809) an intense cultural fascination with all things Egyptian followed.

Tombs of the Kings

The Valley of the Kings in Egypt was sometimes known as the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings (see, for example, H. Carter, "Report on tomb-pit opened on the 26th January 1901 in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings", Les annales du service des antiquités de l’égypte 2 (1901).

William Wilson Hunter

There was unhappiness with the scope and completeness of the earlier surveys conducted by administrators such as Buchanan, and Hunter determined to model his efforts on the Ain-i-Akbari and Description de l'Égypte.


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