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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

French merchant

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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668. Wikipedia

Born: 1605, Paris, France

Died: July 1689, Moscow, Russia

Books: Travels in India, Tabheraniẏe-ra bhārata bhramaṇa, Exi taxidia stēn Tourkia kai tēn Persia

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