"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul"
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, Knight of Pratz was a French author, poet, and statesman. In 1835 he published the "Voyage en Orient", a brilliant and bold account of the journey he had just made, in royal luxury, to the countries of the Orient.
More information:
- Voyage en Orient: 1832-1833, Volume 1
- Nouveau voyage en Orient : (1850)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)
- Lamartine at la Turquie
- History of Turkey, Volume 1
- A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land