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Jean Parmentier (1494–1529), born in ''Explorers and colonies: America, 1500-1625'' David B. Quinn p.57
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The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 1494 births 1529 deaths People from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime French explorers French exploration in the Age of Discovery Maritime navigators {{France-bio-stub
Jean Parmentier (1494–1529), born in Dieppe
Dieppe (; ; or Old Norse ) is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France.
Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England ...
, France, was a navigator, cartographer, and poet. Jean and his brother Raoul made numerous voyages for the shipowner Jean Ango
Jean Ango (an Italianized form of Jehan Angot) (1480–1551) was a Norman shipowner who provided ships to Francis I, King of France, for exploration of the globe. A native of Dieppe, Ango took over his father's import-export business and ventur ...
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In 1531 Pierre Crignon, published a collection of Jean's poetry. Although Jean was well known as a cartographer, none of his maps have survived.
In their voyages he supposedly was accompanied by "Jean Sasi, le grand Peintre". Upon their return they triggered the development of the Dieppe maps
The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced works, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Kings Henry II of ...
, influencing the work of Dieppe
Dieppe (; ; or Old Norse ) is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France.
Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England ...
cartographers, such as Jean Rotz
Jean Rotz, also called Johne Rotz, was a 16th-century French artist-cartographer. He was born to a Scottish father and a French mother.
Career
Rotz was a member of the school of the Dieppe maps. He may have accompanied Jean Parmentier to Sumatra ...
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Works
* ''Journal du voyage de Jean Parmentier, de Dieppe, à l'Ile de Sumatra en l'année 1529''Notes
See also
* France-Asia relationsExternal links
*Michael WintroubThe Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 1494 births 1529 deaths People from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime French explorers French exploration in the Age of Discovery Maritime navigators {{France-bio-stub