Second Ottoman period · Travellers · Water and mills
Fourmont sketches the 'fountain of Lerna'
1729 Proven
The French scholar Michel Fourmont, sent to Greece by King Louis XV to search for inscriptions and manuscripts, drew a sketch of the Argive plain in 1729. On it he marked the 'fontaine de Lerna', a 'temple of Diana' and marshes 'full of eels'. He drew no mills.
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Sources
- M. Sève, Οι Γάλλοι ταξιδιώτες στο Άργος (1993), p. 58 (original sketch in the BnF), reproduced in Ευτυχία Δ. Λιάτα, «Αργεία γη. Από το τεριτόριο στο βιλαέτι», ΚΝΕ/ΕΙΕ 82, Αθήνα 2003, p. 129 Open (opens in a new tab)
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