Christophe Richer
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Christophe Richer de Thorigny (1514?-1552/53) was valet de chambre
Valet de chambre
Valet de chambre , or varlet de chambre, was a court appointment introduced in the late Middle Ages, common from the 14th century onwards. Royal Households had many persons appointed at any time...

 to Francis I
Francis I of France
Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch...

, a secretary to Cardinal Antoine Duprat
Antoine Duprat
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, and a French ambassador of the 16th century. He was born in Thorigny
Thorigny
Thorigny is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France....

. He was ambassador to Scandinavia
Scandinavia
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 and Germany
Germany
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In the 1530s, Christophe Richer was sent by Francis I to Constantinople
Constantinople
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. In 1540 he published a study of the Ottoman civilization, De rebus Turcarum, also published in French that same year under the title Des Coustumes et manières de vivre des Turcs.

In 1541, Francis I sent Christophe Richer to Denmark
Denmark
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 and Sweden
Sweden
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, the first official French embassy to a Protestant state. Richer was French ambassador to Denmark in 1547.

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