Napoleonic Era
Napoleon's Printer: How Cataloguing Cairo Shaped French Diplomacy
Cataloguing books was not part of the plan in 1800, yet one bureaucrat's obsession with it accidentally derailed one of history's most audacious imperial projects before it began.
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