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F.[rançois] C.[harles] H.[ugues] L.[aurent] Pouqueville, Ancien consul-général de France près d’Ali, pacha de Janina; correspondant de l’Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de l’Institut de France; de l’Académie Ionienne de Corcyre; etc.
Voyage dans la Grèce, Comprenant La description ancienne et moderne de l’Épire, de l’Illyrie grecque, de la Macédoine Cisaxienne, d’une partie de la Triballie, de la Thessalie, de l’Acarnanie,
de l’Étolie ancienne et Épictète, de la Locride Hespérienne, de la Doride, et du Péloponèse; avec
des considerations sur l’achéologie, la numismatique, les moeurs, les arts, l’industrie et le commerce des habitants des ces provinces; Ouvrage orné de figures, et ènrichi de cartes géographiques dressées par M. Barbié du Bocage, de l’Institut de France. Tome deuxième.
A Paris, Chez Firmin Didot, Père et fils, Libraires, Rue Jacob, No 24. MDCCCXX.
Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE FRENCH PHYSICIAN AND DIP- LOMAT François Charles Hugues Laurent Pou- queville (1770-1838) had already found himself in Greece in 1798-99 – when he learned Greek – held captive by pirates on his return from the French sci- entific expedition in Egypt. On his return to France, he published in 1805 a first description of Ottoman Empire regions, including the Peloponnese.
It was because of this experience that he returned to Greece as consul general of France in Ioannina and Patras (1805-16). The result of his long, in- depth acquaintance with Greece was the five-vol- ume Voyage dans La Grèce (1820-21), which was re-published (expanded to six volumes, 1826-27) – a valuable reference for all subsequent travellers, with
detailed descriptions and facts about Greece and its inhabitants.
The title page (engraved by Charles de Lasteyrie af- ter drawings by Melle Robineau) depicts a Souliot woman in a scene of everyday life, in a characteris- tic lavish costume. The choice of subject represents a departure from the tradition of travellers’ books, which were almost exclusively focused on ancient remains, whereas the depiction of Modern Greeks was of secondary importance.
A fervent Philhellene, when the Greek Revolution broke out Pouqueville wrote History of the Greek Rev- olution from 1740 to 1824 – a foremost historio- graphical source for the early years of the Struggle.
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