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| Birth name | Joseph Anthelme Sève |
| Born | 17 May 1788[1] Lyon,Kingdom of France |
| Died | 12 March 1860(1860-03-12) (aged 71) Cairo,Egypt Eyalet,Ottoman Empire |
| Buried | Old Cairo, Egypt |
| Allegiance |  First French Empire (until 1815) Egypt Eyalet |
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| Spouse(s) | Maria Myriam Hanim |
| Children | Asmaa al-Faransawi Hanim Nazli al-Faransawi Hanim Mohamed Bey al-Mahdy al-Faransawi (Iskander Bey) Zuhra al-Faransawi Hanim |
| Relations | Nazli Sabri (great-granddaughter) |
Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (bornJoseph Anthelme Sève; 17 May 1788 – 12 March 1860), was a French-born Egyptian military commander.
Joseph Anthelme Sève was born inLyon to Anthelme Sève and wife Antoinette Juillet.[2] He became a sailor.[3] Later he joined the army ofNapoleon Bonaparte. He fought at the battles ofTrafalgar andWaterloo.[3] 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.[2] He was placed in charge of the new soldiers' school atAswan, now theEgyptian Military Academy.
He married aGreek woman, Maria Myriam Hanim, with whom he had four children:[4][5][6] Asmaa al-Faransawi Hanim, Nazli al-Faransawi Hanim, MohamedBey al-Mahdy al-Faransawi (Iskander Bey), and Zuhra al-Faransawi Hanim.[7] One of his great-granddaughters wasQueen Nazli,[5] wife ofKingFuad, and mother ofKing Farouk.[6]
His tomb is inOld Cairo, and the body of his wife is buried nearby.[4]
There is a statue of him in theEgyptian National Military Museum inside theCairo Citadel and a bust at thePréfecture in Lyon, France.
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...
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.
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