Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi
{{Short description|Egyptian commander}}
{{Other people||Suleiman Pasha (disambiguation){{!}} Suleiman Pasha}}
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| birth_name = Joseph Anthelme Sève
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| birth_date = 17 May 1788{{cite book|author=Stéphane Bachès|title=Dictionaire historique de Lyon|page=1225|year=2009}}
| birth_place = Lyon, Kingdom of France
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| death_place = Cairo, Egypt Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
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| spouse = Maria Myriam Hanim
| children = Asmaa al-Faransawi Hanim
Nazli al-Faransawi Hanim
Mohamed Bey al-Mahdy al-Faransawi (Iskander Bey)
Zuhra al-Faransawi Hanim
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Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (born Joseph Anthelme Sève; 17 May 1788 – 12 March 1860), was a French-born Egyptian military commander.
Biography
Joseph Anthelme Sève was born in Lyon to Anthelme Sève and wife Antoinette Juillet.{{Cite web |last=Mara |date=2023-08-25 |title=Suleiman al Faransawi - Joseph Anthelme Seve |url=https://marahouseluxor.com/suleiman-al-faransawi-joseph-anthelme-seve/ |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=MARA HOUSE LUXOR |language=en-US}} He became a sailor.{{cite book|author=George Young|title=Egypt from the Napoleonic Wars Down to Cromer and Allenby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0KoLpd0Tj58C&pg=PA46|access-date=20 July 2013|year=2002|publisher=Gorgias Press LLC|isbn=978-1-931956-88-8|pages=46}} Later he joined the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. He fought at the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo. After the war ended in 1815, he resigned from Napoleon's Army and worked as a merchant.
At this time, Muhammad Ali Pasha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt, was recruiting European officers to train his newly formed military on modern warfare and soldierly discipline. Sève travelled to Egypt, changed his name and converted to Islam. He was placed in charge of the new soldiers' school at Aswan, now the Egyptian Military Academy. File:Soliman Pacha.jpg
Marriage and children
He married a Greek woman, Maria Myriam Hanim, with whom he had four children:{{cite book |title= Cairo |last= Rodenbeck |first= John |year= 1993 |publisher= Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company |isbn= 9780395664315 |quote= Born in Lyon in 1788 and originally known in France as Anthelme Seve, Sulayman Pasha ... In the building nearby is interred the body of Lady Maryam, Sulayman Pasha's wife, a beautiful Greek whom the young and dashing colonel had rescued... |page=143 }}{{cite book |title= Egypt's Belle Époque: Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists |last= Mostyn |first= Trevor |year= 2006 |publisher= Tauris Parke Paperbacks |isbn=9781845112400 |quote= Sulaiman Pasha made an eccentric figure ... Born in Lyon in 1788, he lived to the age of seventy-two with his favourite Greek mistress, dying in Cairo on 12 March 1860. His daughter, Nazli Hanem, married Muhammad Sherif Pasha, who was to become an important prime minister under Ismail. Their granddaughter, the beautiful, domineering Nazli Sabri, was to marry King Fouad and give birth to the last of the dynasty, King Farouk. |pages=27–28 }}{{cite web|title=Weekend Nostalgia|url=http://mideasti.blogspot.com/2013/05/weekend-nostalgia-when-talaat-harb.html|work=The Middle East Journal|access-date=20 July 2013|date=31 May 2013}} Asmaa al-Faransawi Hanim, Nazli al-Faransawi Hanim, Mohamed Bey al-Mahdy al-Faransawi (Iskander Bey), and Zuhra al-Faransawi Hanim. Soliman-Pacha, colonel Sève, généralissime des armées égyptiennes; ou, Histoire des guerres de l'egypte de 1820 à 1860 One of his great-granddaughters was Queen Nazli, wife of King Fuad, and mother of King Farouk. File:Vieux Kaire. Soliman Pacha et ses enfants restored col.jpg
Death
His tomb is in Old Cairo, and the body of his wife is buried nearby.{{cite book |title= Cairo |last= Rodenbeck |first= John |year= 1993 |publisher= Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company |isbn= 9780395664315 |quote= Born in Lyon in 1788 and originally known in France as Anthelme Seve, Sulayman Pasha ... In the building nearby is interred the body of Lady Maryam, Sulayman Pasha's wife, a beautiful Greek whom the young and dashing colonel had rescued... |page=143 }} File:CairoOldTombFaransawi.jpg
Legacy
There is a statue of him in the Egyptian National Military Museum inside the Cairo Citadel and a bust at the Préfecture in Lyon, France.File:قلعة صلاح الدين الأيوبي 15.jpg
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi}}
- {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20060701155543/http://soliman-pacha.ifrance.com/biograph.htm Biography]
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Category:Egyptian people of the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841)
Category:Military personnel from Lyon
Category:Egyptian people of French descent
Category:French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
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