French Campaigns in Egypt and Levant (Many Wonderful Things)

The French Campaigns in Egypt and Syria refer to military conquests by Napoleon Bonaparte against the Ottoman Empire in Egypt and the Levant during the time of the First French Republic. Although it ultimately ended in a defeat for France in favor of the Anglo-Ottoman alliance, the brief Frenh rule over Egypt nonetheless helped to bring the region into the modern world after the repressive Turkic rule. This was espeically helpful for the utilization and proliferation of Aegyptography, which had been popular in the western world among Orientalists since the Middle Ages. Napoleon himself, an avid historian and literary enthusiast, was also a student of Aegyptography.