Antoine Escalin des Aimars (1516-1578), also known as Captain Polin or Captain Paulin, later Baron de La Garde, was French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1541 to 1547, and "Général des Galères" from 1544.
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Jerôme Maurand, priest of Antibes, accompanied Polin and the Ottoman fleet in 1543-44, and wrote a detailed account in Itinéraire d'Antibes à Constantinonple, 1544.
The five French galleys of Captain Polin in front of Pera at Constantinople in August 1544, drawn by Jérôme Maurand (detail of the above).
Massacre of the Waldensians of Mérindol in 1545.
Polin participated to the French invasion of the Isle of Wight in 1545.Writers from France 6
About this person
Country
FranceCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1498 to 1578 · aged 80
Written about in
9 languages
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