Jacques de Germigny was

French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire France had a permanent embassy to the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1535, during the time of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered to have been the direct predecessor of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turke ...

from 1579 to 1585. He succeeded to Gilles de Noailles as ambassador. He was sent to the Ottoman Empire by

Henry III of France Henry III (french: Henri III, né Alexandre Édouard; pl, Henryk Walezy; lt, Henrikas Valua; 19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589) was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of ...

. He was succeeded by

Jacques Savary de Lancosme Jacques Savary de Lancosme was French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1585 to 1589. He was a native of Poitou. He succeeded Jacques de Germiny. Lancosme entered into conflict with the first English Ambassador to the Porte William Harborne. La ...

. During his tenure, the Ottoman ambassador

Ali Aga ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

, went to France to visit

and bring him the renewal of the Franco-Ottoman Capitulations.''The Papacy and the Levant'' by Kenneth M. Setton p.841
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