The Sultan Bonaparte

Cairo, 1799. General Bonaparte begins an Egyptian campaign, which will make him Napoleon. However, on the night of January 3 to 4, 1799, barely six months after the capture of Cairo by Napoleon Bonaparte, some soldiers of the French army admitted to having murdered three Egyptian women in obscure circumstances.

Bonaparte, torn between his desire to inflict on his soldiers a punishment commensurate with the crime but, above all, confirming his policy of respect for Islam and the pressure from...