📘 Excerpt from Municipalité d'Alexandrie: Alexandrea Ad Ægyptum; Guide de la Ville Ancienne Et Moderne Et du Musée Gréco-RomainPar-ci, par - là, un palmier solitaire laissait flotter, aux caresses des vents du nord, sa chevelure abondante au dessus de son long corps nu. Superbes et tristes, l'aiguille de Cléopâtre et la Colonne de Pompée tels deux géants survivant au désastre immense, se regardaient de loin et se disaient mutuellement leur chagrin séculaire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.