French Franciscan monk. Angoulême, 1504 - Paris, 23 November 1592. He travelled through the Ottoman Empire, returning to France in 1554, where he wrote the Cosmographie du Levant (first edition in 1554). In 1555 he made a trip to Brazil, about which he wrote Les singularitez de la France antarctique. In 1558 he left the Franciscan Order, becoming 'cosmographer' of the King of France and keeper of the royal museum of curiosities. Cf. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises publié sous la direction de Mgr. G. Grente. Le seizième siècle, 1951, page 664; A. Cioranesco, Bibliographie de la littérature française du seizième siècle, 1959, pages 660-661; B. de Troeyer, BioBibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica saeculi XVI, II, 1970, pages 565-568. Thevet also made in 1578 a world map and a map of France, used by A. Ortelius, and of which copies were sold by Plantin: cf. J. Denucé, Oud-Nederlandsche kaartmakers in betrekking met Plantijn, II, 1913, pages 59-60.