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About Édouard de Villiers du Terrage
Édouard de Villiers du Terrage was a French engineer who, together with Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois, participated in Napoleon's expedition to Egypt from 1798 to 1801 and helped compile the Description de l'Égypte. His personal diary of the expedition was published in 1899 by his grandson Marc de Villiers du Terrage and reissued as L'expédition d'Égypte. Journal d'un jeune savant engagé dans l'état-major de Bonaparte (1798-1801) in 2001.
Everything about Édouard de Villiers du Terrage →- Occupation
- anthropologist, engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads, archaeologist, explorer
- Position held
- Inspector general of the Ponts et Chaussées
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- April 26, 1780
- Died
- April 19, 1855