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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean-Baptiste
Tavernier (1605 - July 1689) was a French traveller and pioneer of trade
with India, and travels through Persia (Iran), most known for works in
two quarto volumes, Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (Six
Voyages) 1676) and diamond merchant for some important diamonds of the
century. He was born in Paris, where his father Gabriel and uncle
Melchior, Protestants from Antwerp, pursued the profession of
cartographers and engravers. Tavernier was one of the most remarkable
men of a most remarkable century, the 17th century, known as the Age of
Exploration. Tavernier, a private individual, a merchant traveling at
his own expense, covered by his own account, 180,000 miles (290,000 km)
over the course of forty years and six voyages.
