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Fables d'Orient. Miniaturistes, artistes et aventuriers à la cour de Lahore. Islam water) to reconstruct the livingIn 1799, the sovereign Ranjit Singh seized Lahore, making it his capital, ruling over a Sikh empire extending across the whole of Punjab. Bolstered by his military successes, achieved thanks to a trained army of European officers "surviving the glories of the Napoleonic adventure," his dynasty restored order in Lahore and unified Punjab. As evidence of this adventure in the Orient, the Memoirs of General Court (1793 1880), preserved in the library of