Laurent d'Arvieux [SEP] place of death
Laurent d'Arvieux
Laurent d'Arvieux (21 June 1635 – 30 October 1702) was a French traveller and diplomat born in Marseille.
He is known for his travels in the Middle East, which began in 1654 as a merchant in the Ottoman port of Smyrna. From 1658 he travelled throughout the Levant (Lebanon, Syria and Palestine) and in 1666 visited Tunis. Later he returned to France, and in 1674–75 was assigned as consul to Algiers, then later served as consul to Aleppo from 1679 to 1686.
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External links.
- Laurent d'Arvieux at Bibliothèque nationale de France
- "Voyage dans la Palestine" at Bibliothèque nationale de France
- "Voyage dans la Palestine" at Internet Archive
- "The travels of the chevalier d'Arvieux in Arabia the desart" (translation of "Voyage dans la Palestine") at HathiTrust