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Le Voyage de Sparte

1906 book by Maurice Barrès

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ136813156 ↗
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Le Voyage de Sparte (lit. 'The Journey to Sparta') is a 1906 book by the French writer Maurice Barrès. It is based on Barrès' travels in Greece from 19 April to 25 May 1900. It gathers Barrès' impressions from Athens to Olympia, with his positive assessment of Sparta as the centre of the travel narrative.

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The public source identifies “Le Voyage de Sparte” as 1906 book by Maurice Barrès. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Voyage, Sparte and book.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Voyage, Sparte and book providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136813156. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1906 and 1900.

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This entry incorporates text from “Le Voyage de Sparte” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.