Visit to the mosques with La Tour and Sir Malézieux

November 26th, 1849, 12pm

Visit to the mosques with La Tour and Sir Malézieux: coat, collar, hat, yellow gloves, looks like a pitiful blockhead, not amused at all by the Arab architecture; however, passing near the Bazaar of the Negroes towards Bab el-Futuh, was titillated: “Tell your guide to tell her to get naked”, about a poor negro woman which was in front of us.

Al-Azhar mosque. Mullahs seated on the floor in the sun, in the courtyard, writing, orating; rows of columns at the foot of which wreaths of white turbans were seen - the Sheik displacing the crowd with a stick, when it was becoming too compact around us; - Brutality of our cawas [policeman] to put away the people; on the steps of the mosques, he used his long silver-headed stick with both hands and beat right and left.


Cassie, David Wade and Craig said thanks.

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Gustave Flaubert

"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." [extracts from Flaubert's travel diary written in 1849-1851]

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