''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

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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

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.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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