Place Kléber
Central square anchored by a general's statue standing atop his own tomb, a sphinx carved at his feet.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Place Kléber in Strasbourg opens with a puzzle: a single knife thrust killed a French general, yet doctors in Paris spent decades studying the head of the man who wielded it. It follows Jean-Baptiste Kleber, born in Strasbourg in 1753, who rose beside Napoleon in Egypt and was left running Cairo after one last victory against an Ottoman army in the spring of 1800. You'll hear about the young Syrian student who walked into his garden that June, the engineer who tried to shield him, and the strange scientific afterlife that followed for the attacker's remains. Listen for how Kleber himself finally made it home, resting beneath the statue that stands here today.
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