title: Shadows of the Nile: A modern day Egyptian mystery
author: Ms. Brigitte Vogt
description: Brigitte Vogt was born and raised in Germany and came to the United States as a young woman after studies at the Universities of Muenster and Mainz in Germany. She completed her education with a B.A. summa com laude from California State University in Hayward. She was married and divorced in California and subsequently moved back to Germany for nine years with her two young boys. While in Germany she embarked on a career in the chemical industry. Her German employer transferred her to New York as business development manager and she made her home in Greenwich, Connecticut. After leaving the German company she worked as an international business executive for a large French chemical company with American headquarters in Philadelphia. As Director for International Business Development she traveled the world. After early retirement she moved to Chandler, AZ in the Phoenix metropolitan area where she teaches part time in several local high schools. Ms. Foulke is fluent in German, Spanish and has some knowledge of French and Portuguese. She is also currently studying Arabic because of her fascination with parts of the Middle East, especially Egypt. She completed an Arabic language course in Cairo in the summer of 2010 and is currently in the process of setting up U.S. representation for an Egyptian travel company. Her hobbies are traveling, swimming, reading and ancient history.
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  Pharaoh’s Wife
  
  
  An Occult Novel
  
  
  
  
  
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  Félicien Champsaur
  
  
  
  
  
  translated, annotated and introduced by
  
  
  Brian Stableford
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Black Coat Press Book
  
  
  
  
  
  # Introduction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  La Pharaonne, roman occulte by Félicien Champsaur, here translated as
  Pharaoh’s Wife: An Occult Novel, was originally published in Paris in 1929 by
  Ferenczi et fils, illustrated by an “archaeological commentary” designed by
  the Italian artist Fabius Lorenzi. It is an odd book, perhaps because it
  appears to have been written “backwards.” If the evidence of the text can be
  trusted, the author must have undertaken a voyage to Egypt early in 1928,
  traveling up the Nile over a period of weeks, making elaborate notes of his
  observations for future reference. Wanting to make use of that material in a
  novel, he then appears to have designed a long prelude establishing the
  characters that would, so to speak, take his place in the story as observer