Chateaubriand used his new-found wealth in 1806 to visit Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, and Spain. The notes he made on his travels later formed part of a prose epic, "Les Martyrs", set during the Roman persecution of early Christianity. His notes also furnished a running account of the trip itself, published in 1811 as the "Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem" ("Itinerary from Paris to Jerusalem"). The Spanish stage of the journey inspired a third novella, "Les aventures du dernier Abencérage" ("The Adventures of the Last Abencerrage"), which appeared in 1826.