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Granger (Tourtechot)

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Des Herrn Grangers Beschreibung seiner in dem Jahre 1730 durch Egypten gethanen Reise, vorin das merkvurdigste in diesem Lande, insonderheit was die Naturgeschichte betrifft, beschrieben ist
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Relation du voyage fait en Egypte, par le sieur Granger, en l'année 1730. Où l'on voit ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, particulièrement sur l'histoire naturelle
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A Journey through Egypt made in the year 1730, in which there are to be found the most remarkable particulars on Natural History
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in 1731, when Pignon was assigned French Consul in Cairo. During his stay in Egypt, Granger travelled up the Nile to
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Granger's account and notes was published in French in 1745, in German 1751 and in English 1773. The flower
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According to the preface of the only work attributed to him, his real name was
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On his return from Egypt in 1732, Granger received a commission from King
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In the 1720s he worked as a physician in a Christian hospital in
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Index

Dijon
Basra
French
physician
natural history
Tunis
Jean Pierre Pignon
Egypt
Aswan
Louis XV of France
Crete
Cyprus
Palestine
Syria
Persian
Grangeria
Chrysobalanaceae
Categories
1680s births
1734 deaths
French travel writers
17th-century French physicians
18th-century French physicians
French naturalists
French male non-fiction writers
18th-century French male writers
17th-century French male writers

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