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The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris egypt Fantastically Great Women Who ChangedApollinaireLebas Introduced And Translated ByBobBrier Colette FossezSumner Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas, a man of extraordinary resolve and ability. His is a tale of adventure, excitement,