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Consul / diplomat

Gustave Laffon

1835–1906 · France

French diplomat. Consul at Nicosia and Larnaca. Succeeded Dominique Albert Edouard Tiburce Colonna-Ceccaldi.

Life and work

  1. 10 September 1867
    In a letter of 10 September 1867 from Larnaca to the Governor of Nicosia, an unsigned writer states that 'Mr Laffon, the vice-consul of France in Nicosia' notifies a firman allowing excavations throughout the island and asks that the moudirs be told not to obstruct the work done in the writer's name.

    LarnacaMarangou 2000, p. 39

  2. 1868
    As French consul, in the 'case of the Tricomo farm' accused Luigi Palma di Cesnola of interfering in French consular matters and of trespass on a Frenchman's property and cornering the cotton crop; made the trespass accusation to the representative of the Emperor at Constantinople. Cesnola denied it and informed the State Department.

    LarnacaMarangou 2000, p. 172

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.O. Masson (1992). “Diplomates et amateurs d'antiquités à Chypre vers 1866-1878”. Journal des Savants, 123-154.
  3. 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.