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X.[avier] Boniface de Saintine
Épitre aux Grecs, suivie de notes sur la situation et les ressources de la Grèce moderne
Paris, Chez Niogret, Libraire, Rue de Richelieu, N.o 63, Bureau des Archives; Et chez les Marchands de Nouveautés. 1821
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WHEN THE GREEK REVOLUTION
broke out, the French writer Xavier Boniface de Saintine (1798-1865) published a Letter to the Greeks, printed by F.-P. Hardy, to encourage the up- rising. Making references to classical Antiquity and contemporary figures such as Napoleon and Rigas, he argued for taking up arms to secure liberty. The Letter is in fact addressed, not so much to Greeks, but to Europeans, essentially urging them to take a stance.
II.8.C.6
Edward Blaquière
Characteristically, the motto on the title page is from Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A number of such pamphlets were published by var- ious philhellenes during the course of the Greek Revolution; the proceeds from their sale were of- ten used “for the benefit of the Greeks” and went towards covering the cost of the War.
Report on the Present State of the Greek Confederation, and on its claims to the support of the Christian World. Read to the Committee
of the Philhellenes on Saturday, 13th September 1823 London: by the Printing House of Richard Taylor, 1823
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AN ANONYMOUS TRANSLATION into Modern Greek of Edward Blaquière’s Report on the Present State of the Greek Confederation, and on its claims to the support of the Christian World (Lon- don 1823), which was also translated into French. In the preface, the Greek translator addresses his compatriots (“Expatriate Friends”, 24 Oct. 1823) and signs as “a patriot”. Blaquière’s Report was delivered on September 13, 1823, at the Philhellenic Society in London. A British Royal Navy officer and a stu- dent of Jeremy Bentham’s, the author had travelled to Greece in March 1823; returning to England, he became involved in philhellenic circles. This Report for Greece argues enthusiastically in favour of the Revolution.
It is accompanied by a report on the situation in the Peloponnese, delivered to the Philhellenic Society on September 20, 1823; an elegiac song; and an epi- taph for Markos Botsaris, in which he is compared to Leonidas at Thermopylae.
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