 Byron took Giraud to visit Charles Meryon , an English doctor who recounted the visit in his memoirs and noted Byron 's vivid interest in the boy . Afterward , rumours were spread by Byron 's servant that the consultation concerned an anal rupture . Meryon was a travelling companion with Michael Bruce and Lady Hester Stanhope , one of Byron 's friends . Accounts from Bruce and Howe Browne , both witnesses to Byron 's interactions with Giraud , provided confirmation of the relationship to Byron 's early biographer Thomas Moore , although in disparaging terms . In mid @-@ 1810 , Giraud acted as Byron 's majordomo on their travels to the Peloponnese , and took care of Byron during his illness while at Patras , eventually becoming ill himself . After recovering , although still weak , the pair continued on their travels , arriving at Athens on 13 October . By November they were joined by Lusieri , Louis François Sébastien Fauvel , who was a French consul , and a group of German academics . 
