Christophe Richer

Des Coustumes et manieres de vivre des Turcs by Christophe Richer.

Christophe Richer de Thorigny (1514?-1552/53) was valet de chambre to Francis I, a secretary to Cardinal Antoine Duprat, and a French ambassador of the 16th century. He was born in Thorigny. He was ambassador to Scandinavia and Germany.^[1]

De rebus Turcarum by Christophe Richer, 1540.

In the 1530s, Christophe Richer was sent by Francis I to Constantinople. In 1540 he published a study of the Ottoman civilization, De rebus Turcarum, also published in French that same year under the title Des Coustumes et manières de vivre des Turcs.^[2]

In 1541, Francis I sent Christophe Richer to Denmark and Sweden, the first official French embassy to a Protestant state.^[3] Richer was French ambassador to Denmark in 1547.^[2]

Works

• De rebus Turcarum ad Franciscum Gallorum regem Christianiss by Christophe Richer [3]
• Des Coustumes et manières de vivre des Turcs by Christophe Richer [4]

See also

• Franco-Ottoman alliance

Notes

1. ^ A history of France, 1460-1560: the emergence of a nation state by David Potter p.77 [1]
2. ^ ^{a b} Robert Estienne, royal printer: an historical study of the elder Stephanus by Elizabeth Armstrong p.144 [2]
3. ^ Renaissance diplomacy by Garrett Mattingly p.153

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