Jerome Maurand Itineraire d Antibes a Constantinonple 1544

Jérôme Maurand was a 16th-century French priest of

Antibes Antibes (, , ; ) is a seaside city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department in Southeastern France. It is located on the French Riviera between Cannes and Nice; its cape, the Cap d'Antibes, along with Cap Ferrat in Saint-Jean-Ca ...

, who accompanied the French officer Captain Polin in conjunction with the

Ottoman fleet The Ottoman Navy () or the Imperial Navy (), also known as the Ottoman Fleet, was the naval warfare arm of the Ottoman Empire. It was established after the Ottomans first reached the sea in 1323 by capturing Praenetos (later called Karamürsel ...

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in 1544, as a part of the

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. Five French galleys under Captain Polin, 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

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, Giglio, Talamona,

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and took about 6,000 captives, but separated in

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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 1543–1544 in

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. The Franco-Ottoman fleet left

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on 23 May 1544. They arrived in

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on 10 August 1544 to meet with

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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"''.Anthony Carmen Piccirillo p.1
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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
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*''"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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