Louis\' hope was to lure that country into the political and religious orbit of France.
Along the way he falls madly in love with the.
Poncet travels through the deserts of Egypt and the mountains of Abyssinia to the court of the Negus, thence to Versailles and back again.
Selected by the French consul to lead the mission.
Jean-Baptiste Poncet, young apothecary/physician to the pashas of Cairo, is the hero of this romantic epic embroidering upon the known details of that long-forgotten embassy.
Louis\' hope was to lure that country into the political and religious orbit of France