Jérusalem, Beit-Lehem, Vue générale
Auguste Salzmann French
Printer Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille French
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Viewed from afar, the small, dark windows of Bethlehem’s geometric dwellings evoke the words of Salzmann’s countryman, the explorer François-René de Chateaubriand: "This sacred land dares no longer express its joy, and locks within its bosom the recollections of its glory." Other accounts, however, describe a bustling nineteenth-century city that received nearly as many visitors as the much larger Jerusalem. Ignoring the everyday life of Ottoman Palestine, Salzmann presented a vacant, closed land.
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