Joseph-François MICHAUD (1767-1839). L.A.S., [Mansourah] "week of April 8" [1831], to Jean-François Mimaut consul general of France in Cairo; 2 1/2 fol. pages, addressed. Attached is a L.A.S. to Mme Berryer Interesting letter from the historian of the Crusades towards the end of his trip to the Orient undertaken in May 1830. He reached the end of his journey to Mansourah and Damiette: "I am sadly going to take the road to Alexandria again, crossing the delta; [...] a league from Cairo, we saw a kanche [cange] overturned, showing the keel instead of the mast; when I asked how this had happened, I was told that God had willed it so. God didn't allow such a thing to happen to us, and I consider myself very lucky. In Mansourah, Dr Canova took him to the banks of the Achmoun canal: "We recognized the place where the Crusaders camped, the place where the Muslims camped; I saw the raised ground where St Louis appeared armed with his German sword, the little bridge that the Sire de Joinville defended; when we returned from our walk, I was shown the house of the eunuch Lokman where the King of France was locked up. I found something that is no less precious to me, an Arabic chronicle of Mansourah [...] I am delighted to be able to read this chronicle, which is not known to our scholars". He then left for Damietta: "I visited the site of ancient Damietta, where the village of Lisbet del Borg [Ezbet el Borg] now stands, the village of the Sour. [...] I had some pleasure in visiting these plains, the scene of so many battles that I have described [...] When I think of the crowd of renegades that the crusades produced, I think I see the descendant of a Frenchman in every Arab I meet in this country"... Attached is a L.A.S. to Mme Berryer: "We are all workers of royalism, and thank God, we recognize no privilege"..., and a portrait.