Though the young French general ultimately failed to wrest Egypt from the Mamluks, he did win the trust and support of his countrymen. Late on the wintry afternoon of Dec. 5, 1797, a 28-year-old Frenchman stepped from a carriage at 6 rue Chantereine in Paris. “At first sight he seemed to me to have a …
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