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's conquest of Egypt and produced the ''

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'' (published in 37 Books from 1809 to around 1829). More than half were engineers and technicians, including 21 mathematicians, 3 astronomers, 17 civil engineers, 13 naturalists and mining engineers, geographers, 3 gunpowder engineers, 4 architects, 8 artists, 10 mechanical artists, 1 sculptor, 15 interpreters, 10 men of letters, 22 printers in

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characters. Bonaparte organised his scientific 'corps' like an army, dividing its members into 5 categories and assigning to each member a military rank and a defined military role (supply, billeting) beyond his scientific function.

Members

Some members, like Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Monge, or Vivant Denon, are universally remembered but most have been all but forgotten. Some became members of the Institut d'Egypte. * Pierre-Onésime Adnès the elder (1760–1819), mechanic * Simon-Onésime Adnès, (1780–1820), mechanic * François Sébastien Aimé (1762–1843), mechanic * Bertrand Alibert (1775–1808), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Felice Ansiglioni, printer (Oriental section) *

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(1766–1834), writer * Pierre Arnollet (1776–1857), polytechnician (X 1796), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Charles-Louis Balzac (1752–1820), architect * Pierre Joseph de Beauchamp (1752–1801), astronomer and diplomat * Beaudoin, printer (French section) * B. Belletête (1778–1808), orientalist and interpreter * Denis Samuel Bernard (1776–1853), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées *

Claude Louis Berthollet Claude Louis Berthollet (, 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mecha ...

(1748–1822), chemist * Jacques Antoine Bertre (1776–1834), polytechnician (X 1794), geographical engineer * Julien Bessières (1777–1840), surgeon * Besson, printer (French section) * Louis Victor Bodard (1765–1799), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * A.-N.-F. Bonjean (1775–1845), marine engineer * Mathurin-François Boucher (1778–1851), polytechnician (X 1794), ingénieur du génie maritime * Jean-Baptiste Pierre Boudet (1748–1828), pharmacist in chief * Boulanger, printer (French section) * L. S. Bourgeois * Boyer, printer (French section) * Damien Bracevich (died 1830), interpreter * Maximilien de Caffarelli du Falga, general * Caquet (died 1799), artist * Philippe Joseph Marie Caristie (1775–1852), polytechnicien (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Jean-Jacques Castex (1731–1822), sculptor * François-Charles Cécile (1766–1840), mechanic * comte Jacques Joseph Gaspard Antoine Chabrol de Volvic (1773–1843), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * père Jacques-Pierre Champy (1744–1816), chemist * Nicolas Champy (1776–1801), polytechnicien (X 1794), chemist * Jean-Siméon Champy (1778–1845), polytechnicien (X 1794), gunpowder commissaire * Jean François Chaumont (1774–1856), polytechnicien (X 1795), marine engineer * Callixte-Victor Cirot (died 1801), mechanic *

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(died 1801), mechanic * H. V. Collet-Descotils (1773–1815), chemist *

Nicolas-Jacques Conté Nicolas-Jacques Conté (4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805) was a French painter, balloonist, army officer, and inventor of the modern pencil. He was born at Saint-Céneri-près-Sées (now Aunou-sur-Orne) in Normandy and distinguished himself for ...

(1755–1805), director of mechanics * Ernest Coquebert de Monbret (1780–1801), botanist * Jean Baptiste Corabœuf (1777–1859), polytechnician (X 1794), capitaine en premier dans le corps des ingénieurs géographes * Louis Alexandre de Corancez (1770–1832), geometer *

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(1777–1861), mineralogist * Louis Costaz (1767–1842), geometer *

Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle (3 January 1748, in Le Mans – 20 March 1835, in Paris) was a French engineer, scientist and pioneer of ballooning. Life He got to know the physicist Alexandre Charles and, in the wake of the experiences of the Montg ...

(1748–1835), adjunct to the director of mechanics * Couvreur, mechanic * Jacques-Denis Delaporte (1777–1861), orientalist *

Dominique Vivant Denon Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (4 January 1747 – 27 April 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for France under Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre ...

(1747–1825), writer, artist *

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, mechanic * A. J. Dewèvre (1775–1799), surgeon *

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(1750–1801), mineralogist and geologist * G. de Dominicis, printer (Oriental section) *

Antoine Dubois Baron Antoine Dubois (19 June 1756 – 30 March 1837) was a French surgeon born in Gramat, department of Lot. As the consultant-surgeon, and head of maternity services to Napoleon and his wife the Empress Marie Louise of Austria, Dubois delivere ...

(1756–1837), doctor * Isidore Dubois (born 1782), surgeon * Nicolas Dubois (born 1776), polytechnician (X 1794), printer (French section) * Jean-Marie Dubois-Aymé (1779–1846), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Louis Duchanoy (1781–1847), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Jacques Auguste Dulion (1776–1798), polytechnician (X 1795) * Victor Dupuis (1777–1861), polytechnician (X 1794), ingénieur géographe *

André Dutertre André Dutertre (9 June 1753 in Paris – April 1842 in Paris) was a French painter. Life A professor at the école gratuite de dessin, his students included Vien and Collet. He took part in the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria and on 22 ...

(1753–1842), painter * Léonard Duval (1768–1798), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Ch. M. Eberhardt (born 1782), printer (French section) * Elias Fatalla, head of the printer (Oriental section) * J.-P. Faurie (1760–1799), geographical engineer * Louis Joseph Favier (1776–1855), polytechnician (X 1796), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Hervé Charles Antoine Faye (1763–1825), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * J.-L. Féraud (1750–1809) * Jean Baptiste Simon Fèvre (1775–1850), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Pierre Denis Fouquet, artist *

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(1768–1830), geometer *

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(1763–1851), printer (French section) *

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 177219 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories ...

(1772–1844), naturalist * Alexandre Sébastien Gérard (1779–1853), polytechnician (X 1798), naturalist * Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1835), chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Alexis Gloutier (1758–1800), administrator * Philippe Greslé (1776–1846), polytechnician (X 1795), shipbuilder * Jean Charles Hassenfratz (1766–1834), mechanic * François Michel Hérault (died 1800), mechanic * Jean-Baptiste Hochu (born 1775), mechanic *

Pierre Jacotin Pierre Jacotin (1765–1827) was the director of the survey for the '' Carte de l'Égypte (Description de l'Égypte)'', the first triangulation-based map of Egypt, Syria and Palestine. The maps were surveyed in 1799-1800 during the campaign in ...

(1765–1827), geographical engineer * Jardin, printer (French section) *

Pierre Amédée Jaubert Pierre Amédée Emilien Probe Jaubert (3 June 1779 – 28 January 1847) was a French diplomat, academic, orientalist, translator, politician, and traveler. He was Napoleon's "favourite orientalist adviser and dragoman". Biography Born in Aix ...

(1779–1847), orientalist and interpreter * Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois (1776–1842), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, entrusted with the hydraulic works in the

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* Louis Auguste Joly (1774–1798), painter * Edme François Jomard (1777–1862), polytechnician (X 1794), geographical engineer and archaeologist * Jean-Baptiste Jomard (1780–1868), student geographical engineer * Jean Joseph Labâte (1766–1835), doctor * Jean-Baptiste Lacipière (born 1776), surgeon *

Michel Ange Lancret Michel Ange Lancret (December 15, 1774 – December 17, 1807), was an engineer with the French Corps of Bridges and Roads. He was a student of the École Polytechnique in 1794, became an Engineer of Bridges and Roads in 1797, and was a ''savant ...

(1774–1807), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * X. Laporte (died 1799), printer (French section) * François Laroche (1778–1806), polytechnician (X 1795), geographical engineer * Le Brun (died 1801) * Bienheureux Lecesne (1772–1827), geographical engineer * Louis Marie Leduc (born 1772), antiquary * Pierre Eustache Leduc (died 1799), geographical engineer * Lenoble, interprètre * Pierre Lenoir (1776–1827), mechanic * Jean-Baptiste Lepère (1761–1844), architect * Gratien Le Père (1769–1832), chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Jacques-Marie Le Père (1763–1841), chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Lerouge (died 1801), chemist * Lethioux, printer (French section) * J. F. L. Levesque (born 1760), geographical engineer * Santi Jean-Baptiste L'Homaca, interpreter * Amable Nicolas Lhomond (1770–1854), mechanic * F. Maccagni (1763–1846), printer (Oriental section) *

Jean-Joseph Marcel Jean-Joseph Marcel (24 November 1776 – 11 March 1854) was a French printer and engineer. He was also a ''savant'' who accompanied Napoleon's 1798 campaign in Egypt as a member of the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a corps of 167 technical ...

(1776–1854), director of printers * Marlet, printer (French section) * Pierre-Denis Martin (1771–1855), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Jérôme Isaac Méchain (1778–1851), astronome * Antonio Mesabki, imprimeur section orientale * Benoît Marie Moline de Saint-Yon (1780–1842), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées *

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, comte de Péluse (1746–1818), mathematician * Hippolyte Nectoux (1759–1836), botanist * Charles Norry (1756–1832), architect * Nicolas-Antoine Nouet (1740–1811), astronomer * Panhusen (died 1798), orientalist and interpreter *

François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison (; 7 May 1759, Paris – 7 December 1834) was a French poet. He initially intended to painting, he studied with the painter Jacques-Louis David. Ruined by the French Revolution, he managed to make a living a ...

(1759–1834), writer * L. Pellegrini, printer (Oriental section) * Charles Plazanet (1773–1868), mechanic * Paul Nicaise Pottier (1778–1842), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Roland Victor Pottier (1775- ?), polytechnician (X 1795), ingénieur géographe *

François Pouqueville François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville (; 4 November 1770 – 20 December 1838) was a French diplomat, writer, explorer, physician and historian, member of the Institut de France. First as the Turkish Sultan's hostage, then as Napoleon Bo ...

(1770–1838), surgeon * Pourlier, antiquary * Jean Constantin Protain (1769–1837), architect * J.-J. Puntis (1758–1812), printer (French section) * François Marie Quenot (born 1761), astronomer * Alire Raffeneau-Delile (1778–1850), botanist * Adrien Raffeneau-Delile (1773–1843), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Louis Rémy Raige (1777–1810), orientalist * Henri-Joseph Redouté (1766–1852), painter *

Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély Michel Louis Etienne Regnaud, later 1st Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (3 December 1761, Saint-Fargeau – 11 March 1819, Paris) was a French politician. Biography Early activities He was a lawyer in Paris and lieutenant of the maritime ...

(1762–1819), politician * Joseph Angélique Sébastien Regnault (1776–1823), polytechnicien (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, adjunct to Bertholet and entrusted with controlling the currency in Cairo * G. Renno (1777–1848), printer (Oriental section) * Henri Jean Rigel (1772–1852), compositor * Michel Rigo (1770–1815), painter * Louis Ripault (1775–1823), antiquary *

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, printer (French section) * Alexandre Roguin (born 1771), pharmacist * N. Roselli, printer (French section) * Pierre Charles Rouyer (1769–1831), pharmacist * François Michel de Rozière (1773–1842), mining engineer * C. Ruga, printer (Oriental section) * Alexandre de Saint-Genis (1772–1834), polytechnician (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * André Louis de Saint-Simon (died 1799), knight of Malta * Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (1777–1851), zoologist * Pierre Simonel (died 1810), geographical engineer * Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767–1820),

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member * Dominique Testevuide (1735–1798), chief geographical engineer * Claude François Thévenod (1772–1798), polytechnicien (X 1794), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées * Jean Michel de Venture de Paradis (1739–1799), chief interpreter * Very, printer (French section) * Jacques Antoine Viard (1783–1849), student of the

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* René Édouard de Villiers du Terrage (1780–1855), polytechnician (X 1794), inspector general of the Ponts et Chaussées, employed in leveling the Suez isthmus *

Guillaume André Villoteau Guillaume André Villoteau (19 September 1759 in Bellême – 27 April 1839 in Tours) was a French musicologist. Biography An ambulant musician, engaged in the dragons, Villoteau then integrated the mastery of Notre Dame de Paris on the eve of ...

(1759–1839), musicographer * Jean Pierre Séraphin Vincent (1779–1818), polytechnician (X 1796), marine engineer * Louis Vincent (born 1780), engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées {{DEFAULTSORT:Egyptian Institute Of Sciences And Arts Egyptology French campaign in Egypt and Syria 1798 establishments in France Organizations established in 1798