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2 unusual facts about Gabriel de Luetz


Gabriel de Luetz

Gabriel de Luetz was accompanied by a vast suite of scientists, Jean de Monluc, philosopher Guillaume Postel, botanist Pierre Belon, naturalist Pierre Gilles d'Albi, the future cosmographer André Thévet, traveler Nicolas de Nicolay who would publish their findings upon their return to France and contribute greatly to the development of early science in France.

Gabriel de Luetz (as M. d'Aramon, Baron de Luetz) plays a small but significant role in the book Pawn in Frankincense, part of the historical fiction series the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett, which is partly set in Constantinople and Pera in 1553.



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