Consular employee of France in Thessaloniki since 1773, Espry-Marie Cousinery, plows Macedonia for consular work but also, above all, to feed his great passion, the collection of ancient coins. He is the first man from the West to describe the land of Alexander and Philip, not from legends or historical sources, but as his own eyes see it. In the book "Journey to Macedonia" he takes us with him in search of the capitals of Ancient Macedonia, Aige and Pella, with educated local guides and the ancient authors he studied in his high school years.
In Bodena, the ancient and current Edessa, then mistakenly identified with Aiges, he meets the old Metropolitan Germanos of Bodena and later his much younger successor, the educated and imposing Meletios.
The presence of Kuzineri in Macedonia is also exploited by the French ambassador in Constantinople, the rich Count Choiseul-Gouffier, a passionate antiquarian and great collector of antiquities. The earl had tried unsuccessfully to get permission from the Gate to detach the Parthenon sculptures twenty years before Lord Elgin.
Towards the end of the 1780s, Meletios suddenly disappears from Edessa. What incredible circumstances will bring the Consul, the Ambassador and the Metropolitan together? And what questions about their course can we perhaps answer?
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