"Le Pacte Du Désert", by Roselyne Febvre, the Adventurer of the Sands

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The first female graduate of Oxford, who went to the East to make an adventurer, archaeologist, spy, diplomat, in a word, "Queen of the Desert", often referred to as the Lawrence of Women's Arabia, Gertrude Bell will draw the first borders of Iraq and convince Churchill to place his friend, Prince Fayçal, on the throne of this new country. From this colourful figure, which travels, "in dress and hat, the most inaccessible and dangerous regions o…