Christophe Richer

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

Christophe Richer de Thorigny (Latin: Christifor Riccherio)[1] (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.[2]

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.[3]

In 1541, Francis I sent Christophe Richer to Denmark and Sweden, the first official French embassy to a Protestant state.[4] Richer was French ambassador to Denmark in 1547.[3]

Works

Some authors had been considered his work about the Fall of Constantinople as an account of an eyewitness (certain unknown Riccherio), but it was later discovered that it was actually Christophe Richer who composed his testimony of this event based on the work of several historians, such as Egnatius Cipelli, Flavio Biondo, Bartolomeo Platina, Michele Ricci, Robert Gaugin, Paolo Giovio and Andrea Cambini.[1]

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marios Philippides; Walter K. Hanak (2011). The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453: Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 660. ISBN 978-1-4094-1064-5. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  2. ↑ A history of France, 1460-1560: the emergence of a nation state by David Potter p.77
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Estienne, royal printer: an historical study of the elder Stephanus by Elizabeth Armstrong p.144
  4. ↑ Renaissance diplomacy by Garrett Mattingly p.153

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