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Jérôme Maurand was a 16th-century French priest of Anthony Carmen Piccirillo p.1
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* Roger Crowley, ''Empire of the sea'', 2008 Faber & Faber * Garnier, Edith ''L'Alliance Impie'' Editions du Felin, 2008, Paris
Interview
*''"A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty" The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal'', by Anthony Carmen Piccirillo, Senior Honors Thesis in History, Georgetown University 200
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Jérôme Maurand was a 16th-century French priest of Antibes
Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of southeastern France, on the French Riviera, Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.
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, who accompanied the French officer Captain Polin
Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1516 - 1578), also known as Captain Polin or Captain Paulin, later Baron de La Garde, was French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1541 to 1547, and ''"Général des Galères"'' ("General of the galleys") from 1544 ...
in conjunction with the Ottoman fleet of Barbarossa
Barbarossa, a name meaning "red beard" in Italian, primarily refers to:
* Frederick Barbarossa (1122–1190), Holy Roman Emperor
* Hayreddin Barbarossa (c. 1478–1546), Ottoman admiral
* Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Un ...
in 1544, as a part of the Franco-Ottoman alliance
The Franco-Ottoman Alliance, also known as the Franco-Turkish Alliance, was an alliance established in 1536 between the King of France Francis I and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman I. The strategic and sometimes tactical alliance was o ...
.
Five French galleys under Captain Polin
Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1516 - 1578), also known as Captain Polin or Captain Paulin, later Baron de La Garde, was French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1541 to 1547, and ''"Général des Galères"'' ("General of the galleys") from 1544 ...
, including the superb '' Réale'', accompanied Barbarossa's fleet, on a diplomatic mission to Suleiman. The French fleet accompanied Barbarossa during his attacks on the west coast of Italy on the way to Istanbul, as he laid waste to the cities of Porto Ercole
Porto Ercole () is an Italian town located in the municipality of Monte Argentario, in the Province of Grosseto, Tuscany. It is one of the two major towns that form the township, along with Porto Santo Stefano. Its name means "Port Hercules".
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, Giglio, Talamona
Talamona ( Lombard: ''Talamuna'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about west of Sondrio. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,623 and an a ...
, Lipari
Lipari (; scn, Lìpari) is the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of Sicily, southern Italy; it is also the name of the island's main town and ''comune'', which is administratively part of the Metropo ...
and took about 6,000 captives, but separated in Sicily
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from Barbarossa's fleet to continue alone to the Ottoman capital.
Jérôme Maurand wrote a detailed account in ''Itinéraire d'Antibes à Constantinonple''. The fleet of Barbarossa had spent the winter of 1443–1544 in Toulon
Toulon (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Tolon , , ) is a city on the French Riviera and a large port on the Mediterranean coast, with a major naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, and the Provence province, Toulon is th ...
. The Franco-Ottoman fleet left Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
on 23 May 1544. They arrived in Constantinople
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, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
on 10 August 1544 to meet with Suleiman
Suleiman (Arabic language, Arabic: سُلِيمَان ''sulaymān''; or dictionary.reference.comsuleiman/ref>) is the Arabic name of the Quranic king and Islam, Islamic prophet Solomon (name), Solomon meaning "man of peace", derived from the Heb ...
and give him an account of the joint campaign.Garnier, p.240 Polin and Maurand left Constantinople on 9 September 1544, and were back in Toulon on 2 October 1544.
Maurand lamented about the depredation to his Christian coreligionists occasioned by the campaign: ''"To see so many poor Christians, and especially so many little boys and girls nslavedcaused a very great pity."'' He also mentioned ''"the tears, wailings and cries of these poor Lipariotes, the father regarding his son and the mother her daughter... weeping while leaving their own city in order to be brought into slavery by those dogs who seemed like rapacious wolves amidst timid lambs"''./ref>
Notes
References
* Yann Bouvier, ''Récits de voyage et représentation de l'espace. La Méditerranée de Jérôme Maurand, un espace vécu'', Mémoire de Master, Dir. par Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Université de Nice, 2007, 292 p* Roger Crowley, ''Empire of the sea'', 2008 Faber & Faber * Garnier, Edith ''L'Alliance Impie'' Editions du Felin, 2008, Paris
Interview
*''"A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty" The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal'', by Anthony Carmen Piccirillo, Senior Honors Thesis in History, Georgetown University 200
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