André Thevet (/təˈveɪ/; French: [təvɛ]; 1516 – 23 November 1590) was a French Franciscan priest, explorer, cosmographer and writer who travelled to the...
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Cē Ācatl Topiltzin (section Work by Andre Thevet)
tow. This third translation, which is written by French cosmographer André de Thevet, was translated from a lost Spanish version in the sixteenth century...
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commemorates André de Thevet (1516-1590), a French Franciscan priest and explorer, who explored Brazil and Guiana (where the plant is known as chapéu-de-napoleão...
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Franciscan priest and explorer André Thevet after his experiences in France Antarctique, a French settlement in modern Rio de Janeiro. Although purportedly...
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Lucien Thévet (June 3, 1914 – June 30, 2007) was a twentieth-century French horn player and teacher in France. Lucien Thévet's father, Eugène Thévet, an...
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later histories by François de Belleforest and André Thévet. Her story has been retold many times since 1560. Marguerite de La Rocque's place and date...
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France Antarctique. According to the description of French priest André de Thevet, the German soldier of fortune and sailor Hans Staden (1525–1579) was...
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Jean-François Roberval (redirect from Jean-Francois de la Rocque, Sieur de Roberval)
1500–1750. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 0-7656-0257-1. Thevet, André et al. (1986) André Thevet's North America: A Sixteenth-Century View McGill-Queen's...
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cannibalism (as detailed in the 16th century writings of André Thévet, Hans Staden and Jean de Léry) and a metaphorical instance of cannibalism: "eat"...
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general for his uncle Louis XII, killed at the battle of Ravenna in 1512. André Thevet, Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion, transl...
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Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (redirect from Jean de Lorraine, 1st Cardinal de Lorraine)
statement of Thevet himself, à Plaisance en Italie. André Thevet (1556). Cosmographie de Levant, par F. André Thevet... (in French). Lyon: Ian de Tournes et...
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France. It was certainly in the possession of André Thévet, cosmographer to King Henry II of France. Thévet wrote his name in five places on the codex,...
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John, Count of Angoulême (redirect from Marguerite de Rohan, Countess of Angoulême)
Rosemary (2010). The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age. Routledge. Thevet, André (2009). Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion...
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naturalist Pierre Gilles d'Albi, the future cosmographer André Thévet, traveler Nicolas de Nicolay who would publish their findings upon their return...
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I'Ascention" in the travel report Les singularitez de la France antarctique by André Thévet. Given that Thévet alludes to a flightless bird named Aponar in...
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its trunk, including those of Prince Henry the Navigator in 1444 and André Thevet in 1555. From this he concluded that the species was extraordinarily...
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Jean Nicot (redirect from Jean Nicot de Villemain)
of Paris began to use the plant, making Nicot a celebrity. Although André Thevet argued that he had introduced tobacco to France, the plant was called...
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percent was a direct consequence of the Venetians' defeat at Agnadello. André Thevet, Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion, transl...
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Paquetá Island (redirect from Ilha de Paquetá)
hunting and living grounds. It was officially registered by the Frenchman André Thevet in December 1555, and acknowledged by King Henri II as a French discovery...
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Battle of Renty (category Military history of the Pas-de-Calais)
Erlanger, Philippe (1974). Diane de Poitiers (in French). Paris: Editions Gallimard (Folio). p. 286. Thevet, André (2010). Portraits from the French...
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, French poet (born 1544) September 20 – Robert Garnier, French poet (born 1544) November 23 – André Thévet, French cosmographer...
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a region also called "Morpion" at that time (according to André Thévet - "Singularités de la France Antarctique"). The Tupinambá responded to this outrage...
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Singularitez de la France antarctique " di André Thevet". Archivio Storico Italiano. 145 (2 (532)): 195–202. JSTOR 26215223 – via JSTOR. Thevet, André; Bogliolo...
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life and times of Thomas Stukeley (c.1525–78). Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Thevet, André (2010). Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion...
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2009.02.003. ISSN 0305-4403. Thevet, André (1575). La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet, cosmographe du roy: illustrée de diverses figures des chose...
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Le langaige du Bresil (redirect from Regyme pour congnoistre la latitude de la region et aussi la haulteur de la ligne equinotialle sur nostre orison)
in documents from French travelers of the 16th century, such as André Thevet and Jean de Léry, seem to indicate these materials did not come from a common...
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Guillaume Postel (redirect from Guillaume de Postel)
he sent Postel as the official interpreter of the French embassy of Jean de La Forêt to the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Constantinople...
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Beauvais, where he died on 9 January 1571, aged about 60. The Catholic André Thévet, who had accompanied him on the first trip to Brazil, published in 1572...
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nine-tiered heavens)." In the Histoyre du Mechique, Franciscan priest André Thevet translated a Nahuatl source reporting that in this layer of heaven there...
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cannibalism (as detailed in the 16th century writings of André Thévet, Hans Staden, and Jean de Léry), and a metaphorical instance of cannibalism: it eats...
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