Pierre Davity
Pierre Davity, or d'Avity, Sieur de Montmartin (1573–1635) was a French soldier and writer of compilations, today little known. His account of Senegal was plagiarised by Olfert Dapper in his Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Eylanden (1668).
Also recorded as Pierre d'Avity
Pierre Davity
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- Born
- 1573. · Tournon-sur-Rhône.
- Died
- 1635. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, military personnel, military officer, historian, writer and geographer.
- Languages
- French.
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• Les estats, empires et principautez du monde (1614) • Le Monde (1st ed. 1637; 2nd ed. 1643; 3rd ed. 1660)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
He also worked under the name D.T.V.Y. The authorities additionally record the heading Pierre d'Avity. His recorded language was French.
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Pierre Davity is recorded as poet, military personnel, military officer, historian and writer.
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1573
Pierre Davity was born in 1573 at Tournon-sur-Rhône.
1635
Pierre Davity died in 1635 at Paris.
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Tournon-sur-Rhône.
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Paris.
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- 1.Hair 1974, 36–40.
- 2.Gilbert 1919, 323
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Hair, P. E. H. Barbot, Dapper, Davity: A Critique of Sources on Sierra Leone and Cape Mount. History in Africa. 1. 25–54. 1974. 10.2307/3171759.
- Gilbert, Allan H. Pierre Davity: His "Geography" and Its Use by Milton. Geographical Review. 7. 323–338. 1919.
- Lacroix, André. Pierre Davity. Bulletin de la Société d'archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme. 4. 99–102. 1869.
- Perrossier, Cyprien. Pierre Davity, géographe et bel esprit du xviie siècle. Bulletin de la Société d'archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme. 36. 199–209, 310–316, 438–441. 1902.
- Thilmans, Guy. Le Sénégal dans l'oeuvre d'Olfried Dapper. Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire. 33. 3. 508–563. 1971.
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