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THEURIET, CLAUDE ADHEMAR ANDRE (1833-1907)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 844 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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THEURIET, CLAUDE ADHEMAR ANDRE (1833-1907) , French poet and novelist, was born at Marly-le-Roi (Seine et Oise) on the 8th of October 1833, and was educated at Bar-le-Due in his mother's province of Lorraine. He studied law in Paris and entered the public service, attaining the rank of chef de bureau before his retirement in 1886. He published in 1867 the Clzemin des bois, a volume of poems, many of which had already appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes; Le bleu et le noir, poemes de la vie reelle (1874), Nos oiseaux (1886), and other volumes followed. M. Theuriet gives natural, simple pictures of rustic and especially of woodland life, and Theophile Gautier compared him to Jaques in the forest of Arden. The best of his novels are those that deal with provincial and country life. Among them are: Le mariage de Gerard (1875); Raymonde (1877); Le fits Maugars (1879); La maison des deux Barbeaux (1879); Souvageonne (188o); Reine des bois (1890); Villa tranquille (1899); Le manuscrit du clzanoine (1902). Theuriet received in 1890 the prix Vitet from the French
Academy
 , of which he became a member in 1896. He died on the 23rd of April 1907, and was succeeded at the
Academy
  by M. Jean Richepin.
See Emm. Besson, Andre Theuriet (1890).
TH$VENOT, JEAN DE (1633-1667); French traveller in the
East
 , was born in Paris on the 16th of June 1633, and received his education in the college of Navarre. The perusal of works of travel moved him to go abroad, and his circumstances permitted him to please himself. Leaving France in 1652, he first visited England, Holland, Germany and Italy, and at. Rome he fell in with D'Herbelot, who invited him to be his companion in a projected voyage to the Levant. D'Herbelot was detained by private affairs, but Thevenot sailed from Rome in May 1655, and, after vainly waiting five months at Malta, took passagefor Constantinople alone. He remained in Constantinople till the end of the following August, and then proceeded by Smyrna and the Greek islands to Egypt, landing at Alexandria on New Year's Day, 1657. He was a year in Egypt, then visited
Sinai
 , and, returning to Cairo; joined the Lent pilgrim caravan to Jerusalem. He visited the ,
chief
  places of
pilgrimage
  in Palestine, and, after being twice taken by corsairs, got back to
Damietta
  by sea, and was again in Cairo in time to view the opening of the canal on the rise of the Nile (on the 14th of August 1658). In January 1659 he sailed from Alexandria in an English ship, taking Goletta and Tunis on the way, and, after a
sharp
  engagement with Spanish corsairs, one of which fell a prize to the English merchantman, reached Leghorn on the 12th of April. He now spent four years at home in studies useful to a traveller, and in November 1663 again sailed for the
East
 , calling at Alexandria and landing at Sidon, whence he proceeded by land to Damascus, Aleppo, and then through Mesopotamia to Mosul, Bagdad and Mendeli. Here he entered Persia (the 27th of August, 1664), proceeding by Kermanshah and Hamadan to Isfahan, where he spent five months (October 1664-February 1665), and then joining company with the merchant Tavernier, proceeded by Shiraz and Lar to Bander-Abbasi, in the hope of finding a passage to India. This was difficult, because of the opposition of the Dutch, and though Tavernier was able to proceed, Thevenot found it prudent to return to Shiraz, and, having visited the ruins of
Persepolis
 , made his way to Basra and sailed for India on the 6th of November 1665, in the ship " Hopewell," arriving at the port of Surat on the loth of January 1666. He was in India for thirteen months, and crossed the country by Golconda to Masulipatam, returning overland to Surat, from which he sailed to Bander-Abbasi and went up to Shiraz. He passed the summer of 1667 at Isfahan, disabled by an accidental pistol-shot, and in October started for Tabriz, but died on the way at Miyana on the 28th of November 1667.
Thevenot was an accomplished linguist, skilled in Turkish, Arabic and Persian, and a curious and diligent observer. He was also well skilled in the natural sciences, especially in botany, for which he made large collections in India. His personal character was admirable, and his writings are still esteemed, though it has been justly observed that, unlike Chardin, he saw only the outside of Eastern life. The account of his first journey was published at Paris in 1665; it forms the first part of his collected Voyages. The licence is dated December 1663, and the preface shows that Thevenot himself arranged it for publication before leaving on his second voyage. The second and third parts were posthumously published from his journals in 1674 and 1684 (all 4to). A collected edition appeared at Paris in 1689, and a second in 12mo at Amsterdam in 1727 (5 vols.). There is an indifferent English translation by A. Lovell (fol., London, 1687).


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