Olivier Voutier

**Olivier Voutier** (an haife shi a ranar 30 ga Mayu 1796 a Tuars, Faransa; ya mutu a ranar 18 ga Afrilu 1877 a Hyères, Faransa) jami'in sojan ruwa ne na Faransa wanda ya gano mutum-mutumi na *Venus na Milo* a cikin 1820, kuma ya yi yaƙi a yakin neman 'yancin Girka .

## Binciken ''Venus na Milo''
Voutier ɗan jami'in sojan ruwa ne, kuma yana da shekaru goma sha biyar ya shiga Makarantar Sojan Ruwa a Brest. A watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1820, yana da shekaru ashirin da uku ya kasance mai kula da jirgin ruwa na Faransa Estafette wanda ya tsaya a tsibirin Milos a cikin Aegean . Yana da sha'awar tarihin Girka ta dā, kuma ya yanke shawarar ganin ko zai iya samun wani abu mai ban sha'awa. Ya ɗauki ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa biyu tare da cokali da takalma, kuma ya fara tonowa a cikin rushewar gidan wasan kwaikwayo na dā da ke gefen tudun tsibirin mafi girma. Voutier da ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa sun sami raguwar marmara, bus, ƙafar da aka sassaƙa, da siffofi biyu da suka rasa kawunansu, hannayensu da ƙafafunsu. 

Yayinda Voutier ke bincike, ya ga wani manomi na Girka ya gano wani bangare na wani mutum-mutumi. Voutier ya ƙarfafa manomi ya ci gaba da tonowa, kuma daga ƙarshe ya tono siffar marmara ta Venus, a cikin manyan sassa biyu, tare da wasu 'yan sassa. Sabanin wasu asusun, mutum-mutumi ba shi da hannunsa lokacin da aka gano shi, kamar yadda aka nuna a cikin zane-zanen da Voutier ya yi na mutum-mutuma a lokacin.

Manomi, wanda sunansa Yorgos Ketrotas ne, yana da sha'awar sayar da mutum-mutumi. A cikin kwanaki goma masu zuwa, Voutrier ya kawo Louis Brest, mataimakin wakilin Faransa a Milos, don ganin abin da ya samu, tare da wasu ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa da jami'an sojan ruwa. Ɗaya daga cikinsu jami'in sojan ruwa ne mai suna Jules Dumont d'Urville . D'Urville, masanin gargajiya, ya fahimci ainihin mutum-mutumi da muhimmancin binciken. Koyaya, Kyaftin na Chevrette ba zai ɗauki mutum-mutumi a cikin jirgin ba.[1] D'Urville ya rubuta wa Jakadan Faransa a Constantinople, Marquis de Riviere, sannan ya tafi da kansa kuma ya shawo kansa ya sayi mutum-mutumi ga Faransa, wanda ya yi. An aika da jirgin ruwa don dawo da mutum-mutumi zuwa Toulon, kuma a cikin 1821, an gabatar da mutum-mutumin ga Sarki Louis XVIII, wanda shi ma ya ba da gudummawa ga Louvre.

## Yakin Independence na Girka
A shekara ta 1821, Voutier ya yi murabus daga Sojan Ruwa kuma ya shiga cikin 'yan tawaye na Girka a yakin neman' yancin Girka, a karkashin umurnin Demetrios Ypsilantis . Ya shiga cikin kewaye da Tripolizza, inda ya isa a watan Satumbar 1821, tare da mai goyon bayan 'yancin kai na Girka, Thomas Gordon . A watan Maris na shekara ta 1822 Ministan Yakin gwamnatin wucin gadi ta Girka, Ioannis Kolettis, ya ba Voutier aikin kewaye tsakiyar Athens ba tare da lalata abubuwan tunawa ba. Daga baya aka ba shi suna a matsayin kwamandan a cikin Sojojin Girka.

Ya yi ritaya zuwa birnin Hyères a 1847, inda ya sayi ƙasar tsohon gidan ibada a cikin tuddai kuma ya gina wani gida da ake kira Castel Sainte-Claire . An binne shi a wurin shakatawa na villa.

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## Bayanan littattafai

* Curtis, Gregory, Disarmed - *The Story of the Venus de Milo*. Vintage, 2004.
* Colonel Voutier, *Découverte et acquisition de la Vénus de Milo*, Hyères, 1874, in-8° br.
* Jean-Paul Alaux, *La Vénus de Milo et Olivier Voutier*, Collection du galion d’or chez Jean-Paul Alaux, Paris, 1939.
* Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville, Marie-Louis-Augustin Demartin du Tyrac et Olivier Voutier, *L’Enlèvement de Vénus*, La Bibliothèque, 1994 ().
* Takis Thédoropoulos : *L'invention de la Vénus de Milo* Sabine Wespieser Editeur,