Silvestre de Sacy trained a generation of Orientalists who packaged the Orient

Evidence

The initial work of Napoleon’s intellectual army gained momentum following his campaign, and, through the first half of the nineteenth century, the great scholar of the Orient Silvestre de Sacy—who was to train a generation of Orientalists—led the charge of academics, writers, artists, and adventurers who served as mediators for those in France, interpreting and packaging the Orient for French consumption. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 382

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete name for the manufacturing pipeline the reader is tracing — the intellectual ‘army’ as a packaging apparatus.