French physician and traveler, born at Angers, in France; died at Paris on the 22nd of September 1688. Having taken his degree of doctor, he departed for the East in 1654, and visited Syria, Egypt, Arabia and India; in the last he resided for twelve years, in the capacity of physician to Aurangzeb. He published an account of his travels in 1670. The work is delightful in style, as well as in the description of places, and clear in exposition of the causes of those political events that carried Aurangzeb to the throne.
