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Consul / diplomat

Méchain

fl. 1821–1829 · France

French diplomat, active 1821–1829. Consul at Larnaca. Employed Napoléon Antoine Aimé Péretié.

Life and work

  1. 1821
    During the 1821 disturbances an excerpt in Cobham credits 'M. Mechain, French Consul' with saving Larnaca from ruin: his remonstrances, backed by the cannon of a Royal Navy transport, made the Governor quarter the Syrian levies in the fortresses; he later sheltered Greek refugees at the Consulate against a mob until Greek boats from Psara arrived.

    LarnacaCobham 1908, pp. 454-455

  2. 1825
    Consul Méchain had already described Cyprus in 1825 as 'a European power's admirable colony' (quoted in Bonato's introduction to Fourcade's 1844 memoir).

    Bonato 2000, p. 6

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Fieldwork & employment

Sources

  1. 1.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
  2. 2.Lucie Bonato (2000). “Le témoignage de Dagobert Fourcade, Consul de France à Larnaca de 1840 à 1845 (Introduction à l'édition du « Mémoire sur l'état présent de l'île de Chypre, 1844 »)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 30, 119-218. Online
  3. 3.Hélène Cassimatis (2001). “Melchior de Vogüé et alii and Cyprus: Monsieur Péretié”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 216-221. Oxford, Oxbow Books.