Hippolyte Mazier du Heaume: Voyage d un Jeune Grec a Paris. Paris 1824 First edition, in 8vo,contemporary full leather slightly trimmed,text clean and bright, complete in two volumes, at front past down of the second volume a printed mention by the Academy of Poitiers that this particular copy was an award in 1843 in an apparent Philhellenic contest,overall in very good condition The culmination of Philhellenism in printed books during Revolution.In France Hippolyte Mazier du Heaume presents the fictionalized or semi-autobiographical journey of a young Greek man traveling to the heart of France. The story follows a native of Rhodes who studied in Athens and after the turmoil of the Greek Revolution begins, he travels through Italy, Holland, and England before eventually settling in Paris.The timing of the book's publication is no coincidence. In 1824, Philhellenism was at its absolute fever pitch in Paris. The author uses the character of Philoménor to contrast the heroic struggle of the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire with the comfortable, often cynical life of the French elite around. The book opens with references to the descendants of Hercules trembling their oppressors, framing the Greek struggle as a fight for civilization itself. The book famously discusses the arrival of the Venus de Milo at the Louvre,discovered in 1820. For a Young Greek in the story, seeing the stolen or exported heritage of his homeland in a French museum creates a complex emotional dialogue.