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    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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  • Marguerite of Navarre, and in later histories by François de Belleforest and André Thévet. Her story has been retold many times since 1560. Marguerite de La Rocque's...
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    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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    published in French in 1557 by the French Franciscan priest and explorer André Thevet after his experiences in France Antarctique, a French settlement in modern...
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  • travel report Les singularitez de la France antarctique by André Thévet. Given that Thévet alludes to a flightless bird named Aponar in 1555, it could...
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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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    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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  • forms of ritual cannibalism (as detailed in the 16th century writings of André Thévet, Hans Staden, and Jean de Léry), and a metaphorical instance of cannibalism:...
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    Egypt and published their travel accounts, such as Joos van Ghistele and André Thévet, put Thebes in or close to Memphis. The first European description of...
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    the clear statement of Thevet himself, à Plaisance en Italie. André Thevet (1556). Cosmographie de Levant, par F. André Thevet... (in French). Lyon: Ian...
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    by an author, and usually now lost. Seven years after visiting Giza, André Thévet (Cosmographie de Levant, 1556) described the Sphinx as "the head of a...
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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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    Pierre Belon, naturalist Pierre Gilles d'Albi, the future cosmographer André Thévet, philosopher Guillaume Postel, traveler Nicolas de Nicolay, or the cleric...
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    Loeb Classical Library Theophrastus: Enquiry into Plants vol. I, 1916. André Thevet illustrated in his iconographic compendium, Les vraies Pourtrats et vies...
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    Imaginative portrayal of Origen from Les Vrais Portraits Et Vies Des Hommes Illustres by André Thévet...
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    Vasili III Sovereign of all Russia Engraving by André Thevet, 1584 Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia Reign 6 November 1505 – 3 December 1533 Coronation...
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    forms of ritual cannibalism (as detailed in the 16th century writings of André Thévet, Hans Staden and Jean de Léry) and a metaphorical instance of cannibalism:...
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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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    Constantine XI as depicted in 1584 by André Thevet...
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  • Imaginative portrayal of Origen by André Thévet...
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    of certain types of maples during the spring thaw to harvest the sap. André Thevet, the "Royal Cosmographer of France", wrote about Jacques Cartier drinking...
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    America", the toucan, was based on an illustration by André Thevet, and she also copied his "Su". Thevet had a number of connections to Mary, and the Guise...
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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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    shark's teeth was held by some since at least 1554, when cosmographer André Thevet described it as hearsay, although he did not believe it. The earliest...
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    An engraving of Mustafa by André Thevet, dated 1584...
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    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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    Germanic languages until after the Middle Ages. The French explorer André Thévet commented in 1558: "the beak [is] similar to that of a cormorant or other...
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    travelers, such as the naturalist Pierre Belon and the cosmographer André Thevet, as evidenced in the preface to Cosmographie universelle. The dedication...
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    Engraving by André Thevet, 1575...
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    Nicotiana, although André Thevet claimed that he, not Nicot, had introduced tobacco to France; historians believe this unlikely, but Thevet was the first Frenchman...
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