Jean de la Roque, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French explorer
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Place of Birth: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Jean de la Roque
- Jean de la Roque (1661 – December 8, 1745) was a French traveller and journalist born in Marseille.
- He was the son of Pierre de la Roque, a merchant who his remembered for introducing coffee to Marseille in 1644, and the brother of Antoine de la Roque (1672-1744), a noted journalist with whom he collaborated with on the magazine Mercure de France. Jean de la Roque was the author of Voyage en Syrie et au mont Liban (1722), a book written about his experiences in the Levant, which he first visited in 1689.
- Here he describes the customs of the various regional tribes, and provides information on the ruins at Baalbek.
- In 1708-10 and 1711-13 he participated on two expeditions to the Arabian peninsula, and afterwards published his Arabian experiences in a work called Voyage dans l’Arabie heureuse (1716).
- In this treatise he gives a highly descriptive and detailed account of coffee plantations and the coffee trade in Yemen.
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