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Théophile Gautier: An Excursion in Greece

Continuing our series of Gautier's travel writings, 'An Excursion in Greece' is now available here.

Gautier visited Greece briefly during his return journey from Constantinople in 1852, en route via Syros to Trieste. This narrative of his excursion to Piraeus and Athens was included in the posthumous collection L’Orient (1877).

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