The tireless flâneur Henri de Régnier embarked twice, in 1904 and 1906, aboard the yachts Velleda and Nirvana, to make two voyages through the Mediterranean that were to take him from Marseilles to the magn fica Constantinople, which was first Byzantium and then Istanbul, making such emblematic and memorable stopovers as las of Corsica, Sicily, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Crete, Corfu