Edouard du Tour

Comte Édouard du Tour was French consul at Larnaca when the Vogüé mission arrived in January 1862. He had been appointed in July 1860 and was succeeded in March 1862 by Louis Dumesnil de Maricourt¹. Edmond Duthoit wrote that "le Comte du Tour, consul de France, et M. Barclay, consul d'Amérique" offered lodging and table. Melchior de Vogüé and Duthoit stayed with Du Tour, and William Waddington with the American consul, J. Judson Barclay¹. Marangou also records that Du Tour and Sosthène Grasset welcomed the three³.

On 4 February 1862 Du Tour wrote to Vogüé about the Athienou funerary stele, which stood in Grasset's house. Du Tour reported that the Pasha was still disappointed about "la ragazza de pierre" but calmer. He let the Qadi of Larnaca go to Grasset's house, strike the statue and see that it held no treasure. He then showed the Qadi the cabinet "de Barbe-bleue" where he had put "all your severed heads", the mission's purchases. The Qadi, he wrote, wondered why the French came so far for old stones². Vogüé bought the stele with his own money; it reached France in 1866 and he gave it to the Louvre in 1880². Lucie Bonato lists Du Tour among Vogüé's occasional correspondents on Cypriot matters⁴. His dates of birth and death are not recorded.