Second Ottoman period · Travellers
Chateaubriand spends a feverish night in the marsh
19 August 1806 Disputed
The French writer Chateaubriand, travelling from Argos in August 1806, got lost in the marshes at night. He found 'a farm in the middle of the marsh, near the village of Lerne', where the harvest had just been brought in and the reapers slept on the ground; he slept on a heap of sheep dung and caught a fever. His host in Argos, the physician Avramiotti, later doubted that Chateaubriand had seen Lerna at all, so the place is uncertain.
Note: Chateaubriand's farm may also have lain in the marshes nearer Nafplio or Tiryns.
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Sources
- F.-R. de Chateaubriand, Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem (1811), ed. 1881, pp. 141–142 Open (opens in a new tab)
- A. Poirier, Les notes critiques d'Avramiotti sur le Voyage en Grèce de Chateaubriand, Paris 1929 Open (opens in a new tab)
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