Jean de La Forêt
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Jean de La Forêt, also Jean de La Forest or Jehan de la Forest, was the first official French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, serving from 1534 to 1537. Antonio Rincon had preceded him as an envoy t
Draft of the 1536 Treaty negotiated between Jean de La Forêt and Ibrahim Pasha, a few days before his assassination, expanding to the whole Ottoman Empire the privileges received in Egypt from the Mamluks before 1518.
Jean de La Forêt negotiated with Hayreddin Barbarossa in 1534.
Military instructions to Jean de la Forêt, by Chancellor Antoine Duprat (copy), 11 February 1535.
Letter of Suleiman to Francis I in 1536, informing Francis I of the successful campaign of Iraq, and acknowledging the permanent French embassy of Jean de La Forest at the Ottoman court
Siege of Corfu (1537)
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The siege of Corfu in 1537 was led by the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, against the Republic of Venice-held island of Corfu. It is part of the Ottoman–Venetian War, one of the numerous Ott
Le Voyage du Baron de Saint Blancard en Turquie, by Jean de la Vega, after 1538