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François Pidou de Saint Olon (1640,
in 1689, Pidou de Saint Olon was then nominated as ambassador to the court of the Moroccan ruler Mulay Ismail, in view of the signature of a commercial treaty.''A second catalogue of manuscripts, in different languages'' John Cochran p.111
/ref> This responded to the Embassy of Mohammad Temim to Louis XIV in 1682. In 1690, Pidou de Saint Olon was in the city of''In the lands of the Christians: Arabic travel writing in the seventeenth century'' by Nabil I. Matar p.197
/ref> François Pidou de Saint Olon died in Paris on 27 September 1720.
Touraine
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- 1720, Paris
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) was a French diplomat under Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Ver ...
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Embassy to Genoa and Spain
In 1682, he was nominated as the first French resident envoy to theRepublic of Genoa
The Republic of Genoa ( lij, Repúbrica de Zêna ; it, Repubblica di Genova; la, Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the 11th century to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast. During the La ...
. He was then sent as an envoy to Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
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Embassy to Morocco
in 1689, Pidou de Saint Olon was then nominated as ambassador to the court of the Moroccan ruler Mulay Ismail, in view of the signature of a commercial treaty.''A second catalogue of manuscripts, in different languages'' John Cochran p.111/ref> This responded to the Embassy of Mohammad Temim to Louis XIV in 1682. In 1690, Pidou de Saint Olon was in the city of
Salé
Salé ( ar, سلا, salā, ; ber, ⵙⵍⴰ, sla) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the right bank of the Bou Regreg river, opposite the national capital Rabat, for which it serves as a commuter town. Founded in about 1030 by the Banu Ifran, ...
, where he visited the French Consul Jean-Baptiste Estelle
Jean-Baptiste Estelle (1662, Marseille – 1723, Marseille) was French Consul in the Moroccan city of Salé in 1689–98. He was the son of Pierre Estelle, Consul at Tetuan."...the reports sent to the Government of Louis XIV by P. Estelle, Consu ...
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His mission did not succeed however, and he only remained 2–3 weeks in Morocco. He wrote an account of his visit to Morocco, ''Relation de l'empire de Maroc'' ("The present state of the Empire of Morocco").
Another Moroccan ambassador Abdallah bin Aisha
Abdallah ben Aisha (), also Abdellah bin Aicha, was a Moroccan Admiral and ambassador to France and England in the 17th century. Abdallah departed for France on 11 November 1698 in order to negotiate a treaty.''In the Land of the Christians'' by Na ...
would visit France in 1699-1700./ref> François Pidou de Saint Olon died in Paris on 27 September 1720.
See also
* France-Morocco relationsWorks
* ''Estat présent de l'empire de Maroc'', 1694 * ''Relation de l'empire de Maroc'', 1695Notes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Francois Pidou de Saint Olon 17th-century French diplomats Ambassadors of France to Morocco Ambassadors of France to Spain 17th century in Morocco 17th-century French writers 17th-century French male writers Ambassadors to the Republic of Genoa 1640 births 1720 deaths