Pierre Davity, or d'Avity, Sieur de Montmartin (1573–1635) was a French soldier and writer of compilations, today little known. His account of
Senegal
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was plagiarised by
Olfert Dapper in his ''Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Eylanden'' (1668).
[Gilbert 1919, 323]
Works
* ''Les estats, empires et principautez du monde'' (1614)
* ''Le Monde'' (1st ed. 1637; 2nd ed. 1643; 3rd ed. 1660)
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1573 births
1635 deaths
French soldiers
17th-century French writers