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"Praetor-Urbanus;" – Inauguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune. An obese, Copt, holding a mace or staff, rides an ass which, though led processionally by a Copt, proceeds on account of the bayonet with which a grinning French soldier stabs its hind quarters. Date 1799 March 12th.

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