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Dan Ioan Mureșan, « La "France de Chypre" de Nicolas Iorga. Aux origines de l’idée de «la France hors de France» », Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, ID : 10.3406/cchyp.2013.1072
With his monumental work of historian and, above all, as of discoverer and editor of documents, French scholar Louis Mas Latrie (1815-1897) “ invented” the medieval Cypriot studies. This paper will attempt to situate Mas Latrie’s work within the political and ideological context of 19th-century French expansionism.