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Special Envoy to Cairo
With a gruff chin and arms crossed, wearing his emblematic tarbouche, Auguste Mariette casts a placid gaze over the amazed but exhausted tourists.
At the beginning of summer, the center of Cairo is a furnace and most visitors leave the Museum of Antiquities without looking at the imposing bronze statue that sits at its exit.
"To Mariette Pasha, grateful Egypt
", can we read, in Arabic and French, in front of her cenotaph.
The bust of Jean-François Champollion, of more modest size, is relegated to the background.
Way, perhaps, to right an old injustice.
Because…
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