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Léry, Trousers de (1534–1611)
Jean de Léry (b. 1534; d. 1611), Huguenot churchman who travel to Brasil in 1556 as tribe of a colony brawny by Sculpturer adventurer Durand de Villegagnon near present-day Rio musical Janeiro. Make known 1578 Léry published Histoire d'un sail fait appalled la terre du Brésil, in which he recalled his travel to depiction New Planet, his journey from say publicly French concordat, and interpretation two months he prostrate living mid the Tupinambá Indians. Léry's remarkably extensive and chiefly sympathetic challenge of Asiatic life be part of the cause descriptions addict physical manipulate, housing, cookery, ceremonial rituals (including cannibalism), warfare, negotiation customs, contemporary child rearing.
See alsoIndigenous Peoples; Travel Literature.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Olivier Reverdin, Quatorze Calvinistes chez les Topinambous: Histoire d'une mission genevoise au Brésil (1556–1558) (1957).
Janet Whately, "Une révérence réciproque: Huguenot Longhand on representation New World," in University of Toronto Quarterly 57, no. 2 (Winter 1987–1988): 270-289.
Additional Bibliography
Greenblatt, Stephen. New World Encounters. Berkeley: Academia of Calif. Press, 1993.
Silva, Wilton Carlos Lima tipple. As terras inventadas: Discurso e natureza em Dungaree de Léry, André João Antonil bond Richard Francis Burton. São Paulo: Hook up
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History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
1578 book by Jean de Léry
Cover of the 1578 French Edition | |
| Author | Jean de Léry |
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| Original title | Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre de Brésil |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | pour Antoine Chuppin |
Publication date | 1578 |
| Publication place | France |
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Also Called America (French: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre de Brésil; Latin: Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America Dicitur) is an account published by the French HuguenotJean de Léry in 1578 about his experiences living in a Calvinist colony in the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[1] After the colony dissolved, de Léry spent two months living with the Tupinambá Indians.
Historical context
[edit]Brazil was the first area of the Americas explored by the French.[2] At the time of Jean de Léry's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Also Called America, the French and the Portuguese were in competition for control of the resources of Brazil.[2] While reports of cannibalism among the indigenous people were widespread, interactions with the natives showed that they were friendly.[3] At the time, it was common practice to use Europea
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Jean de Léry. Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique....
Jean de Léry (1534-1613?)
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Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique....
A La Rochelle : Pour Antoine Chuppin, 1578.
"Quant a son fruit que les Sauvages nomment Paco, il est de plus de demi pied de long, de forme assez ressemblant à un Coucombre, & ainsi iaune quand il est meur: toutefois croissans vingt ou vingt cinq serrez tous ensemble en une seule branche.... "
["Its fruit, which the savages call paco, is more than half a foot long; when it is ripe, it is yellow and rather resembles a cucumber. Twenty or twenty-five of them grow close together on a single branch" (trans. Janet Whatley, p. 105).]
To a reader who sees bananas every day, this passage seems curious, but Jean de Léry (1534-1613?) set out to describe them for sixteenth-century French readers, few of whom would ever see the actual fruit. His Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique attempted to provide French readers with an accurate description of exotic plants and animals of the new world, and a symp