The monograph is devoted to the Egyptian campaign and the related broader topic of mutual perception of the West and the East in modern times. The book attempts to reconstruct the ideas of the French and Egyptians about each other, as well as to identify the factors that influenced their formation. The research is based on a wide range of sources: Arab chronicles, writings of travelers, the press, diaries and letters of participants in the Egyptian campaign, both published and those introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. For historians and a wide range of readers. The book is dedicated to the Egyptian campaign of Bonaparte and to the wider question of mutual perception of the Orient and the Occident in modern epoch. The author attempts to reconstruct the image of the French in the eyes of the inhabitants of Egypt and image of the Orient in the eyes of the French and to determine the factors that influenced this perception. The research is based on a wide range of sources: the Arab chronicles, travelers writings, the press, diaries and letters, both published and unpublished.