Vincent Le Blanc
Vincent Le Blanc (* around 1553 in Marseille ; † around 1633 ) was a French explorer and writer.
Life
In the course of his travels he visited or pretended to have visited the front and rear of India , Persia and Pegu , Fez , Morocco and Guinea , Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to Alexandria , the islands of the Mediterranean and the most prestigious European provinces as well as northern and eastern Europe South america . His memoirs were prepared for printing by Pierre Bergeron and finally published by Louis Coulon in Paris in 1648 and mix realities and fantastic myths into an adventurous travelogue.
The first edition is about 650 pages long and covers Asia in the first part, Africa in the second and America in the third. One focus of the travelogue is the kingdom of Pegu in what is now Myanmar . In the preface dated 1631, Le Blanc states that he is 78 years old and has been traveling the world for more than 64 years. Out of a thirst for adventure, when he was not yet 14, he embarked on the ship Nostre Dame de la Victoire for Alexandria in 1567 and began his long journeys. The ship, which belonged to the merchant Robert Pontoyne and his father Rafael le Blanc, had fascinated him since childhood and was his favorite stay.
expenditure
- Les voyages fameux du sieur Vincent Le Blanc, marseillois, qu'il a faits depuis l'aage [sic] de douze ans iusques à soixante, aux quatre parties du monde [microforme]: à scavoir aux Indes orientales & occidentales, en Perse & Pegu; aux royaumes de Fez, de Maroc, & de Guiné e, & dans toute l'Afrique interieure, depuis le cap de Bonne Esperance iusques en Alexandrie, par les terres de Monomotapa, du Preste Iean & de l'Egypte; aux isles de la Mediterranée, & aux principales prouinces de l'Europe, & c. (1648) . archive.org
literature
- Claude-François Achard : Histoire des hommes illustres de la Provence… ou Dictionnaire de la Provence et du Comté Venaissin. Part 1, Marseille 1787, p. 96. Full text in the Google book search
- Mirella Witek: Myths et realites in " Les Voyages fameux du sieur Vincent Le Blanc " by Vincent Le Blanc, Pierre Bergeron and Louis Coulon. York University (Canada), 2008.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Blanc, Vincent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | le Blanc, Vincent; Leblanc, Vincent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French explorer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1553 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1633 |