{"id":18892,"date":"2012-12-03T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18892"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:51:59","slug":"mourey-jean-emile-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mourey-jean-emile-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourey, Jean Emile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jean Emile Mourey <\/strong>retired from the French Army with the rank of lieutenant-<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Emile-Mouret-jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19105\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;\" title=\"Emile Mouret jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Emile-Mouret-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>colonel. After that, he developed as an author, publishing a number of books on the ancient history of France. He stirred controversy when he declared that the capital of Plato\u2019s Atlantis was in fact what is now the French village of Gergovie<sup>(a) <\/sup>in the d\u00e9partment of Puy-de-D\u00f4me. He claims that after 509 BC \u2018Atlantis became known as Gaul! He further contended that the Atlantean Empire included most of western Europe as well as north Africa as far east as Egypt. Mourey\u2019s work is only available in French<sup>(b)(c)<\/sup> and does not always machine translate too well.<\/p>\n<p>Although links to his work on the <em>bibracte.com<\/em> website are now broken, the <em>agoravox.fr<\/em> site still offers some of his material, all in French.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agoravox.fr\/tribune-libre\/article\/l-epopee-des-atlantes-capitale-125152\">https:\/\/www.agoravox.fr\/tribune-libre\/article\/l-epopee-des-atlantes-capitale-125152<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171220094314\/https:\/\/www.bibracte.com\/mon_histoire_de_la_gaule\/l_atlantide_de_la_realite_au_reve.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171220094314\/https:\/\/www.bibracte.com\/mon_histoire_de_la_gaule\/l_atlantide_de_la_realite_au_reve.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080705033121\/http:\/bibracte.com\/commander_en_ligne\/histoire_de_gergovie.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080705033121\/https:\/\/bibracte.com\/commander_en_ligne\/histoire_de_gergovie.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Emile Mourey retired from the French Army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After that, he developed as an author, publishing a number of books on the ancient history of France. He stirred controversy when he declared that the capital of Plato\u2019s Atlantis was in fact what is now the French village of Gergovie(a) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1658,1657,1656,1655],"class_list":["post-18892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-france","tag-gaul","tag-gergovie","tag-jean-emile-mourey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67549,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions\/67549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}