List of members of the Morea expedition

The Morea expedition was an intervention of the French Army in the Peloponnese (then known by its medieval name "Morea") between 1828 and 1833, at the time of the Greek War of Independence, with the aim of liberating the region from the Turkish-Egyptian occupation forces. The members were drawn from military and scientific institutions.

Among the members of the expedition present in Morea, ten would subsequently become Ministers (of War, Navy or Foreign Affairs in France, or of Education in Greece for Michel Schinas) and one Prime Minister of France (Eugène Cavaignac).

Members of the military expedition

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The complete organizational chart of the General Staff is given by Captain Alexandre Duheaume in annex to his Souvenirs de la Morée, pour servir à l'histoire de l'expédition française en 1828-1829., Anselin, Paris, 1833.

 
General Nicolas Joseph Maison, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force from 1828 to 1829

Members of the scientific expedition

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Colonel Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (officer, naturalist and geographer), head of scientific expedition

Physical Sciences section

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Geology, Topography and Cartography

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Archaeology section

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Architecture and Sculpture section

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  • Guillaume Abel Blouet: architect, prix de Rome in 1821. On his return from Greece, he was responsible for completing the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile which was inaugurated in 1836. He headed the Section of Architecture and Sculpture and was one of the main authors of works published by this scientific mission.
  • Amable Ravoisié: architect and archaeologist.
  • Frédéric de Gournay: painter.
  • Pierre Achille Poirot: painter.
  • Jean-Baptiste Vietty: Hellenist, archaeologist and sculptor. He quickly left his colleagues in the scientific expedition to visit Greece alone and continued his research in the country in extremely difficult material conditions until August 1831. He died prematurely in France in 1842, in great poverty and without having published a single page of his research in Morea (according to the testimony of the geologist Virlet d'Aoust in a letter to the ministry of 1843). For some reason still unknown, all of his manuscripts, notes and sketches were lost by the Ministry of the Interior around 1848 and still cannot be found today, with the exception of the two recently discovered notebooks.[10]

References

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  1. ^ Soult de Dalmatie, La Grèce après la campagne de Morée, Revue Des Deux Mondes (1829-1971), 1/2, première série, 7-87, 1831.
  2. ^ Andreas Kastanis (May 2003). "The teaching of mathematics in the Greek military academy during the first years of its foundation (1828–1834)". Historia Mathematica. 30 (2): 123–139. doi:10.1016/s0315-0860(02)00023-x. ISSN 0315-0860.
  3. ^ Eugène Cavaignac, Lettres d'Eugène Cavaignac, Expédition de Morée (1828-1829), Revue des deux Mondes, tome 141, 1er mai 1897.
  4. ^ Alexandre Duheaume (captain in the 58th Line Infantry Regiment), Souvenirs de la Morée, pour servir à l'histoire de l'expédition française en 1828-1829, Anselin, Paris, 1833.
  5. ^ Jacques Mangeart, Souvenirs de la Morée: recueillis pendant le séjour des Français dans le Peloponèse, Igonette; Paris, 1830.
  6. ^ Gaspard Roux, médecin en chef, Histoire médicale de l'armée française en Morée, pendant la campagne de 1828, Méquignon l'aîné père, Paris, 1829
  7. ^ Edgar Quinet (historien, membre de la commission scientifique), De la Grèce moderne, et de ses rapports avec l'antiquité., F.-G. Levrault, Paris, 1830.
  8. ^ Grammaire élémentaire du grec moderne : le tout suivi de l'Apologie de Socrate selon Platon, en grec moderne, et de quelques morceaux de poesie ;a l'usage commencans / par Michel Schinas (de Constantinople), attaché à la section d'archéologie de l'expedition scientifique en Morée, Paris, Editions L. Hachette, 1829
  9. ^ a b Michel Schinas, Mémoire sur l'état présent de la Morée, Archives de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Dossier: Commission de Morée (1830). Annoté et commenté par A. Panayiotopoulou-Gavatha. Παναγιωτοπούλου–Γαβαθά, Α. (2016). Ένα υπόμνημα του Μ. Σχινά για την κατάσταση της Πελοποννήσου στα 1830. Σχολιασμένη έκδοση. The Gleaner, 11, 333-362. doi:10.12681/er.9408
  10. ^ Stéphane Gioanni, « Jean-Baptiste Vietty et l'Expédition de Morée (1829). À propos de deux manuscrits retrouvés », Journal des Savants, De Boccard, 2008, 2 (1), pp.383 - 429. doi : 10.3406/jds.2008.5891