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Maurice Barrès was a French philosopher and writer who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He published an account of his travels in Egypt in the early 20th century. Said uses Barrès’s work to demonstrate the continuity of Orientalist discourse, both outside of the academy where it had begun (Barrès was writing for a popular audience) and into the 20th century, even in places like France which had, by then, lost their colonial toehold in the Near East.
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Chapter 3, Part 2
...in the East (as Lawrence’s Britain was) or not, as in the works of Frenchman Maurice Barrès . Barrès sought to a French narrative on the orient by looking for (and finding)...
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