Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) 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.
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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in oriental costume, 1679
An illustration by Tavernier of Indians performing Yoga under a Banyan tree
Church and castle with its minaret-style tower, built in 1680 for Tavernier, at Aubonne, Switzerland
An Italian map (1682) gives credit to Tavernier's accounts among its sources
Tavernier's original sketch of the Tavernier Blue diamondWriters from France 6
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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) 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. In 1675, Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier.
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