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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

1605 - 1689

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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668. In 1675, Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (Six Voyages, 1676). Tavernier is best known for his 1666 discovery or purchase of the 116-carat Tavernier Blue diamond that he subsequently sold to Louis XIV of France in 1668 for 120,000 livres, the equivalent of 172,000 ounces of pure gold, and a letter of ennoblement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier is the 210th most popular explorer (down from 188th in 2019), the 2,457th most popular biography from France (down from 2,307th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 210 out of 498. Before him are Francis Garnier, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, Douglas Mawson, John Rolfe, René Caillié, and Vasily Tatishchev. After him are John Sutter, Ruy López de Villalobos, Jorge Álvares, Gerónimo de Aguilar, Wilhelm Filchner, and Bartolomeu Perestrello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1605, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 15. Before him are Ayşe Sultan, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, Thomas Browne, Semyon Dezhnev, Simon Dach, and George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Ismaël Bullialdus, Ferenc Wesselényi, Zhu Yuyue, Antonio Bertali, and Joos van Craesbeeck. Among people deceased in 1689, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 12. Before him are Aşub Sultan, Aphra Behn, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Pjetër Bogdani, and Kazimierz Łyszczyński. After him are Thomas Sydenham, Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, and Song Si-yeol.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 2,457 out of 6,770. Before him are François Blondel (1618), Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao (1796), Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331), Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (1661), Boso, Margrave of Tuscany (885), and Edgar Faure (1908). After him are Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Thomas, Count of Flanders (1199), Maurice Rouvier (1842), Paul Frère (1917), Antoine Béchamp (1816), and Renée Simonot (1911).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ranks 24. Before him are Sophie Blanchard (1778), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Francis Garnier (1839), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), and René Caillié (1799). After him are Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), André Thevet (1516), Pierre Poivre (1719), Freya Stark (1893), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), and Jacques Labillardière (1755).

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