It started with Maxime Du Camp and Flaubert who, in 1849, went together to Egypt.
Maxime Du Camp had brought with him a photographic camera and had convinced the Académie des Instructions in Paris to commission him for the trip. Flaubert was asked by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce to write his impressions of Egypt. One hundred and fifty years later, in 1989, I decided to follow the same route. I took a ship to the port of Alexandria and retraced Du Camp’s and Flaubert&rsq…
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