Camille Enlart

Camille Enlart toured the Gothic monuments of Cyprus from February to June 1896⁵. He was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer on 22 November 1862 and died in Paris on 14 February 1927¹. On 9 January 1896 he had written to Melchior de Vogüé that he had solicited the mission and, knowing from Rey and Louis de Mas Latrie that Vogüé held notes and drawings on Lapais, proposed to publish whatever Vogüé did not⁴. On the island he was helped by Major Chamberlayne, the Governor's private secretary⁵.

His L'art gothique et la Renaissance en Chypre (Paris, 1899, two volumes) gave the first substantial account, with a plan, of the Royal Manor House at Kouklia, and noted remains of the sugar-factory aqueduct there^2,6,7. Bonato infers that Vogüé gave Enlart part of Edmond Duthoit's Cyprus drawings, among them four Bellapais watercolours, and that they were never returned; Enlart published two of the Bellapais drawings and two Buffavento sketches in the book^4,5.

At Famagusta he also dug. In 1900 he turned up objects connected with the siege, which George Jeffery kept in his small store museum there, as Jeffery wrote in a letter of 22 December 1903⁹. In 1901 he found the autograph of Jacques le Saige, dated 1518, scratched on a wall of St Francis, and allowed Claude Delaval Cobham to print his transcription of Hurtrel's manuscript⁸. His last Cyprus-related paper, on two French inscriptions, appeared in Syria in 1927 and included the epitaph of Jacques Dapel (1294) at Limassol³.