Jean Chesneau Explained

Jean Chesneau was a French writer and secretary to the French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Gabriel de Luetz d'Aramon.

Together with d'Aramon and a second secretary Jacques Gassut, he accompanied Suleiman the Magnificent in 1547 on his conquest of Persia in the Ottoman-Safavid War (1532–1555). Jean Chesneau recorded that d'Aramon gave advice to the Sultan on some aspects of the campaign.[1] Chesneau wrote Le Voyage de Monsieur d'Aramon dans le Levant,[2] an interesting account of the travels of Gabriel de Luetz.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=EF_4AQeOltUC&dq=Gabriel+de+Luetz&pg=PA382 The Cambridge History of Iran, p.382
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=LPp63EKb9moC&dq=Aramon+1551&pg=PA920 Braudel, p.920
  3. New general biographical dictionary Henry John Rose, Thomas Wright Fellowes, 1848 https://books.google.com/books?id=wBkIAAAAQAAJ&dq=Gabriel+de+Luetz&pg=PA75