The pasha’s delight at both the findings—as well as, and as Fagan points out (1975: 281), at the discomfiture of his governor,—led him to order the building of a new museum, which would eventually be opened at the suburb of Bulaq in Cairo. The Queen A-hetep finding was also important in a different way. When the Empress Euge´nie, Napoleon III’s wife, asked the pasha to receive this discovery as a gift to her, he sent the Empress to ask Mariette, who refused to handle it. This decision was not received happily by either of the sovereigns, but it was a landmark in the conservation of Egyptian archaeology (Reid 1985: 235). Mariette also ignored Napoleon III’s comment that the antiquities of the Bulaq would be better off in the Louvre (ibid. 2002: 101).