Jean Chesneau

Le Voyage de Monsieur d'Aramon dans le Levant by Jean Chesneau.
Voyage de Paris à Constantinople by Jean Chesneau, 1547.

Jean Chesneau was a French writer and secretary to the French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Gabriel de Luetz d'Aramon.

Together with d'Aramon and a second secretary Jacques Gassut, he accompanied Suleiman the Magnificent in 1547 on his conquest of Persia in the Ottoman-Safavid War (1532–1555). Jean Chesneau recorded that d'Aramon gave advice to the Sultan on some aspects of the campaign.[1] Chesneau wrote Le Voyage de Monsieur d'Aramon dans le Levant,[2] an interesting account of the travels of Gabriel de Luetz.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Cambridge History of Iran, p.382
  2. ↑ Braudel, p.920
  3. ↑ New general biographical dictionary Henry John Rose, Thomas Wright Fellowes, 1848


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