''Le Courrier d'Orient'' (''Courier of Orient'') was a

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that was published in

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, first in

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then in

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. It was published between 1828 and 1829 during the final years of the

Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. The Greeks were later assisted by ...

by Lieutenant-colonel Maxime Raybaud, a

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philhellene who served in the expeditionary corps of Morea of General Maison in 1828. Raybaud was helped in this task by

Jacques Mangeart Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

.Jacques Mangeart,
Souvenirs de la Morée: recueillis pendant le séjour des Français dans le Peloponèse
', Igonette; Paris, 1830. The newspaper was first published weekly, then fortnightly. It was mainly intended for French officers and soldiers.Marie-Noëlle Bourguet, Daniel Nordman, Vassilis Panayotopoulos et Maroula Sinarellis, ''Enquêtes en Méditerranée'', Institut de Recherches Néohelléniques / F.N.R.S, 1999. () p. 50 It was then published by the French expedition in Athens, under the title Le ''Courrier de la Grèce'', published for the first time on 13 November 1828.

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