FRENCH LANGUAGE
This book is the story of an epic. The one that brought the masterpiece from the island of Melos to France, just two centuries ago.
two centuries ago. A crossing of the seas that took place on the eve of the rebirth of the Hellenic nation.
Hellenic nation. For Greece, conquered by the ...
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FRENCH LANGUAGE
This book is the story of an epic. The one that brought the masterpiece from the island of Melos to France, just two centuries ago.
two centuries ago. A crossing of the seas that took place on the eve of the rebirth of the Hellenic nation.
Hellenic nation. For Greece, conquered by the Roman Empire and succeeded by the Byzantine Empire, was then on the point of the yoke of the Ottoman Empire.
But it is above all in the flesh of men that the marble has left its mark. Changing the destiny of those
of those who witnessed its discovery, the Venus will make some of them pass to posterity; others will die as
martyrs. Around her, a dozen or so crossed swords: a Greek shepherd, the French vice-consul in Milo,
a naval cadet, the famous ensign Dumont d'Urville, the French ambassador to Constantinople and Prince Nicolas
Constantinople and Prince Nicolas Mourousy, Grand Drogman of the Arsenal, the author's ancestor.
French language
204 pages
Éditions de l'Archipel
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