1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
THEVENOT, JEAN DE (1633-1667), French traveller in the East, was born in Paris on the i6th of June 1633, and received his education in the college of Navarre. The perusal of works of travel moved him to go abroad, and his circumstances permitted him to please himself. Leaving France in 1652, he first visited England, Holland, Germany and Italy, and at Rome he fell in with D'Herbelot, who invited him to be his companion in a projected voyage to the Levant. D'Herbelot was detained by private affairs, but Thevenot sai…
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