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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
17th-century French gem merchant and traveler (–)
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (–)[1][2] was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler.[3] Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60, leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years and In , Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (Six Voyages, ).[4][5]
Tavernier is best known for his discovery or purchase of the carat Tavernier Blue diamond that he subsequently sold to Louis XIV of France in for , livres, the equivalent of , ounces of pure gold, and a letter of ennoblement.[2][6]
In , Tavernier purchased for 60, livres the Seigneury (fief) of Aubonne, located in the Duchy of Savoy near the city of Geneva, and became Baron of Aubonne.
Tavernier's writings sho