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André Thevet

1516 - 1590

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André Thevet (; French: [təvɛ]; 1516 – 23 November 1590) was a French Franciscan priest, explorer, cosmographer and writer who travelled to the Near East and South America. His most significant book was The New Found World, or Antarctike, which compiled a number of different sources and his own experience into what purported to be a firsthand account of his experiences in France Antarctique, a French settlement near modern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Thevet is the 236th most popular explorer (down from 200th in 2019), the 2,715th most popular biography from France (down from 2,476th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, André Thevet ranks 236 out of 498. Before him are Otto Finsch, Pehr Osbeck, Naddodd, Lourenço Marques, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, and Carl Anton Larsen. After him are Lincoln Ellsworth, Helge Ingstad, Ma Huan, Olivier van Noort, Jimmie Angel, and Louise Arner Boyd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1516, André Thevet ranks 9. Before him are Bayinnaung, Margaret Leijonhufvud, Tabinshwehti, Hieronymus Wolf, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Söyembikä of Kazan. After him are Cristóvão da Gama, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Realdo Colombo, John Foxe, Emilie of Saxony, and Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox. Among people deceased in 1590, André Thevet ranks 20. Before him are Leone Leoni, François Hotman, Kanō Eitoku, Hōjō Ujimasa, Frans Hogenberg, and Charles de Bourbon. After him are Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Germain Pilon, Robert Garnier, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Dirck Coornhert, and Johann Fischart.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Thevet ranks 2,715 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955), Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Ghislaine Maxwell (1961), Theobald III, Count of Blois (1019), and Jean-François Regnard (1655). After him are Lupus of Troyes (395), Claude Cahun (1894), Guy Ligier (1930), Jean Rapp (1771), Henri Labrouste (1801), and André Marty (1886).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, André Thevet ranks 26. Before him are Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Francis Garnier (1839), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), René Caillié (1799), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724). After him are Pierre Poivre (1719), Freya Stark (1893), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Jacques Labillardière (1755), Nicolas Baudin (1754), and Louis de Freycinet (1779).

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