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Pierre Loti. Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
Table of Contents
Translated from the French by W. P. Baines
CHAPTER I
A WINTER MIDNIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT SPHINX
CHAPTER II
THE PASSING OF CAIRO
CHAPTER III
THE MOSQUES OF CAIRO
CHAPTER IV
THE HALL OF THE MUMMIES
CHAPTER V
A CENTRE OF ISLAM
CHAPTER VI
IN THE TOMBS OF THE APIS
CHAPTER VII
THE OUTSKIRTS OF CAIRO
CHAPTER VIII
ARCHAIC CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER IX
THE RACE OF BRONZE
CHAPTER X
A CHARMING LUNCHEON
CHAPTER XI
THE DOWNFALL OF THE NILE
CHAPTER XII
IN THE TEMPLE OF THE GODDESS OF LOVE AND JOY
CHAPTER XIII
MODERN LUXOR
CHAPTER XIV
A TWENTIETH-CENTURY EVENING AT THEBES
CHAPTER XV
THEBES BY NIGHT
CHAPTER XVI
THEBES IN SUNLIGHT
CHAPTER XVII
AN AUDIENCE OF AMENOPHIS II
CHAPTER XVIII
AT THEBES IN THE TEMPLE OF THE OGRESS
CHAPTER XIX
A TOWN PROMPTLY EMBELLISHED
CHAPTER XX
THE PASSING OF PHILAE
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Pierre Loti
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And taverns, gambling dens and houses of ill-fame. And parading the side-walks, numerous Levantine damsels, who seek by their finery to imitate their fellows of the Paris boulevards, but who by mistake, as we must suppose, have placed their orders with some costumier for performing dogs.
This then is the Cairo of the future, this cosmopolitan fair! Good heavens! When will the Egyptians recollect themselves, when will they realise that their forebears have left to them an inalienable patrimony of art, of architecture and exquisite refinement; and that, by their negligence, one of those towns which used to be the most beautiful in the world is falling into ruin and about to perish?
