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    his education in the Collège de Navarre. He was a nephew of Melchisédech Thévenot, with whom he is often confused. Thévenot conceived a desire to travel...
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  • Thévenot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jean de Thévenot (1633–1667), French traveller, nephew of Melchisédech Thévenot Laurent...
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    about this place to look for young ones, but could find none at all. Jean de Thévenot counted 23 trees in 1655: It is a Fobbery to say, that if one reckon...
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  • Greenwich, as it appeared on Thévenot's chart. Thévenot is often confused with his nephew, the traveller Jean de Thévenot. There is evidence to suggest...
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    used the term thag to refer to a robber who used to lure pilgrims. Jean de Thévenot in his 1665 account referred to a band of robbers who used a "certain...
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    day version, including the production of foam. From the traveller Jean de Thévenot it appears Turks were using it at least a century before that. He mentions...
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    ISBN 978-0-8264-1628-5. de Thévenot, Jean; Lovell, Archibald (1687). The Travels Of Monsieur De Thevenot Into The Levant. Vol. 1. London: Faithorne. de Tournefort...
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    settlement was designated Apanomeria on maps. In the mid-17th century, Jean de Thévenot uses the name Castelli San Nicolas. The name was changed to Oia in...
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    French knight Greffin Affagart (d. c. 1557), the French traveller Jean de Thévenot (d. 1667) and the English prelate Richard Peacocke, who included an...
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    a deadly disease which was widespread at that time. According to Jean de Thévenot, a French traveller of the 17th century whose narration was complemented...
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    to hold rain water for drinking purpose. In 1666, French traveler Jean de Thévenot in his writings notes the absence of restorations required for the...
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    17th century, Pietro Della Valle (1623), Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo (1638), Jean de Thévenot (1666); all had visited the lake gave its accounts. Mandelslo...
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    for pearls around 982 AD, Khark was visited by the French traveller Jean de Thévenot in 1665, who recorded trade at the time with Isfahan and Basra. In...
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    was not, however, merely in the military field. The French traveler Jean de Thévenot bears witness a century later to the "strong agricultural base of the...
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    Tabriz were superior to those produced in Cairo. The French traveler Jean de Thévenot visited Cairo in 1663, after the Ottoman conquest, and stated seeing...
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    French traveler Jean de Thévenot reported 700 houses in the main town of Kea, now Ioulida, in 1656 (his compatriot the botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort...
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    authors list (link) Thévenot, Jean de (1687). "CHAP. XI. Of the Ovens that hatch Chickens.". The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant in three...
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    having seen a flat diamond called the Great Table diamond in Golconda. Jean de Thévenot, François Bernier or Antoine Destremau were French traders in Golconda...
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    only a few monks. Other famous visitors included Jean Coppin in 1638, Jean de Thévenot in 1657, Benoît de Maillet in 1692, Du Bernat in 1710, Claude Sicard...
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    Candide (1759). French travelers of the 17th century, such as Jean de Thévenot or Jean-Baptiste Tavernier routinely visited the Ottoman Empire. There...
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    prosperity. In 1635 Goa was ravaged by an epidemic.[vague][citation needed] Jean de Thévenot in 1666, Baldaeus in 1672, and Fryer in 1675 described Goa in decline...
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  • pearls, gems and other precious wares" from Virji. The French traveler Jean de Thévenot, who visited Surat in the 1660s and developed a friendship with Virji...
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    Memphis, Egypt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
     276–316. Jean de Thévenot (1665). Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant. Paris: L. Billaine. Government of France (1809–1822). Description de l'Égypte....
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    Naxos (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Archipelago (1687, Oxford, pp. 20-21). Jean de Thévenot, in Travels into the Levant (1687, London, pp. 103–105). Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, in A Voyage Into the...
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    Paris, the grande école he taught at. He defeated outgoing deputy Pascal Thévenot of The Republicans with 58.3% of the second-round vote. In Parliament,...
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  • 1640s, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier travelled across Multan on way to Delhi but did not record any information about the temple. However, Jean de Thévenot visiting...
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    to them of which I shall only mention Bozza made from millet." Jean de Thévenot described the fish market of Galata in the 17th century: The most beautiful...
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    appointed the Governor of Gujarat. According to the French traveller Jean de Thévenot (1666), Aurangzeb caused a cow to be killed in the temple premises...
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  • ref, alt link. A century later, French traveller Jean de Thévenot set sail to India from Basra. Thévenot had lived in the Middle East for about five years...
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  • Frankeur as François Thévenot Delphine Seyrig as Simone Thévenot Bulle Ogier as Florence Thévenot Stéphane Audran as Alice Sénéchal Jean-Pierre Cassel as...
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