here in 1863 the french consul at badrianople/b, a m. champoiseau, discovered what was left of the marble figure of the winged victory, represented as standing on the prow of a ship - the ship seeming to float in a marble basin filled with b.../b
It was the year 1863 on the small island of Samothrace when myself along with Charles Champoiseau, French Vice-Counsul to bAdrianople/b stumbled across this strange rock. What we thought was just an ordinary rock seemed to uncover itself b.../b
