# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-de-la-foret
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:07:31.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-de-la-foret"
name: "Jean de La Forêt"
slug: "jean-de-la-foret"
description: "Jean de La Forêt, also Jean de La Forest or Jehan de la Forest, was the first official French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, serving from 1534 to 1537. Antonio Rincon had preceded him as an envoy to the Ottoman Empire from 1530 to 1533. When Jean de La Forêt died in Constantinople in 1537, he was succeeded by Antonio Rincon as official ambassador."
tagline: "First French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1534 to 1537"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Draft_of_the_1536_Treaty_negotiated_between_Jean_de_La_Forest_and_Ibrahim_Pacha_expanding_to_the_whole_Ottoman_Empire_the_privileges_received_in_Egypt_from_the_Mamluks_before_1518.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1500"
deathDate: "1537"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.278150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B5_%D0%9B%D0%B0_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5"
    title: "Жан де Ла Форе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%BE_%D0%9B%D0%B0_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5"
    title: "Жан дьо Ла Форе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_For%C3%AAt"
    title: "Jean de La Forêt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_For%C3%AAt"
    title: "Jean de La Forêt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_For%C3%AAt"
    title: "Jean de La Forêt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Forest_(diplomate)"
    title: "Jean de La Forest (diplomate)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_For%C3%AAt"
    title: "Jean de La Forêt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_la_Foret"
    title: "Jean de la Foret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_For%C3%AAt"
    title: "Jean de La Forêt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q926393"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump