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Jean de la Roque
Jean de la Roque (1661 – December 8, 1745) was a French traveller and journalist born in Marseille. He was the son of Pierre de la Roque, a merchant who his remembered for introducing coffee to Marseille in 1644, and the brother of Antoine de la Roque (1672-1744), a noted journalist with whom he collaborated with on the magazine "Mercure de France".
Jean de la Roque was the author of "Voyage en Syrie et au mont Liban" (
construction site of the Pont Neuf, Toulouse with Capmartin.
By an act concluded on 31 May 1594, his father, Jean Souffron, a native of La Roque-Gaugeac, a resident of the town of Lauzun in Agenais, gave him 400 écus sol, and "de la part qu'il a sur le moulin de Laucque, sur la rivière du Dropt en la terre de Caissac en Agenois".
On June 3, 1606, "Pierre Souffron, architect of the church of Sainte-Marie d'Aux and builder