Boulogne offers a fortified Upper City brimming with history, while downhill there s a bustling shopping area and the huge fishing port. Here s how to best to explore the area without breaking the bank.
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Queen Cleopatra: Femme Fatale of Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra was born in 69 BC to Pharaoh Ptolemy XII ‘Auletes’ and became the very last pharaoh of Egypt because her liaisons gave Rome control of Egypt after her death. Cleopatra had two famous lovers: Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony - both incredibly powerful Romans. But the temptress ambition and seduction, which first augmented her empire s prestige, would later bring about her, and Egypt’s, downfall. In 1866, Jean León Gérome painted
Cleopatra with Julius Caesar, an allegorical piece based on the codes of seduction of one of history’s most successful temptresses.