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Andre Thevet was one of the most widely travelled Frenchmen of the sixteenth century, visiting almost all the main countries and regions of western Europe, the Near East, and Brazil. He served four consecutive French kings, beginning with Henry II, as Royal Cosmographer and "garde des singularitez." As cosmographer, he wrote three major books dealing with the discovery and subsequent exploration of the New World: Les Singularitez de la France antarctique (1556), La Cosmographie universelle (1575), and the Grand Insulaire (unpublished, 1586). Although the portions of these works devoted to...

These 13 selections from Andre Thevet's 'Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres' offer a glimpse of France during a time of great upheaval. The collection contains over 200 biographical sketches, detailing the lives of important persons from antiquity to the 16th century.