1 BnF, Ms Turc 130, 1r – Mémoires de l’Ambassade de Monsieur de Brèves en Levant, très curieux et nécessaire à ceux qui sont employés pour le service du Roy à la Porte Ottomane. Du Ryer de Malezair 2
2 BnF, Ms Turc 130, 17v – First folio of the covenant letter (ahdname) of 1597 granted by Mehmed III to Henri IV of France 9
3 BnF, Ms Turc 130, 27r – Three legal opinions (fetvas) 13
4 BnF, Ms Turc 130, 160v – First folio of the imperial sign (nișan-ı hümayun) issued by Mehmed III for the protection of Flemish merchants 20
5 BnF, Ms Turc 130, 96r – First folio of the imperial order (hüküm) sent by Mehmed III to the local authorities of Egypt and Alexandria in evahir-i Șaban 1007 / 18–27 March 1599 concerning the appointment of Jean de Coquerel (Covan Kokrel) as consul of France 23
6 BnF, Ms Turc 130, 40v – Letter (mektub) from the Director of the Financial Administration in Istanbul to the Financial Administrator in Aleppo (baş-defterdardan Haleb defterdarına mektub) 24
7 The title page of Relation des voyages de Monsieur de Brèves, tant en Grece, Terre Saincte et Aegypte qu’aux Royaumes de Tunis et Arger. Ensemble, Un traicté faict l’an 1604 entre le Roy Henry le Grand et l’Empereur des Turcs. Et Trois discours dudit sieur. Le tout recueilly par le S.(ieur) D(u) C(astel), Paris, N. Gasse, 1628 (Bibliothéque du Palais de France in Istanbul, now at the Library of Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes) 37
8 Chateau de Maulévrier in Melay – Birthplace of Savary de Brèves (1560–1628) 50
9 The title page of Discours veritable fait par Monsieur de Breves, Du procedé qui fut lorsqu’il remit entre les mains du Roy la personne de Monseigneur le Duc d’Anjou, frere unique de Sa Majesté, in Jacques du Castel (ed.), Relation des voyages de Monsieur de Brèves, Paris, 1628 60
10 Portrait of Henri IV, King of France and Navarre (1589–1610), painted by Frans Pourbus the Younger in 1610 – Palace of Versailles (public domain) 106
11 Portrait of Sultan Mehmed III (1594–1603), from Demetrius Cantemir, The History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire. Written Originally in Latin. Translated into English by N. Tindal, London, 1734 107
12 The title page of the bilingual edition, in Ottoman and French, published by François Savary de Brèves, of the Capitulation granted by Ahmed I to Henri IV in 1604 – Articles du traicté faict en l’annee Mil six cens quatre, entre Henri le Grand Roy de France, & de Navarre, Et Sultan Amat Empereur des Turcs. Par l’entremise de Messire François Savary, seigneur de Brèves, Paris, 1615 110
13 François Savary de Brèves, “Notes sur quelques Articles du precedent Traicté.” In Jacques du Castel (ed.), Relation des voyages de Monsieur de Brèves, Paris: N. Gasse, 1628, Appendice 111
14 Map of Marseille from 159 – Pen drawing in the Torino State Archives (public domain) 188
15 Map of Alexandria, from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Part 2: De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus. Cologne: Bertram Buchholz, 1597 (1st ed. 1575) (Wikimedia Commons, donated as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art) 209
16 Map of the Straits Area, called “The Description of the City of Constantinople, and the adjacent Territories and Seas”, from An Itinerary written by Fynes Moryson Gent. First in the Latine Tongue, and then translated by him into English: London: John Beale, 1617 233
17 Map of the Ottoman Empire (Turcici Imperii Imago), from Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura, Editio Secunda, Amsterdam: Sumptibus et typis aeneis Iudoci Hondij, 1609, p. 326–327 (1st ed. 1606) (public domain) 245
18 Audience of Jean du Mont before the kadı of Smyrna on the occasion of his appointment as consul of France (from Jean du Mont. Voyages de Mr. Du Mont, en France, en Italie, en Allemagne, à Malthe, et en Turquie, Tome II, À La Haye: Chez Etienne Foulque & François L’Honore, 1699) 283
19 Map of The Mediterranean Sea divided into the Eastern and Western Seas. Subdivides into its Principal Parts or Seas – English version of La mer Méditerranée divisée en ses principales parties, ou mers, par le S[ieu]r Guillaume Sanson (1633–1703), géographe ordinaire du Roi 394
20 Map of the Dardanelles with plans of the two Castles, from Louis Deshayes, Baron de Courmenin, Voiage de Levant fait par le Commandement du Roy en l’année 1621, Paris: Chez Adrian Taupinart, 1624 414
21 Portrait of Ciğalazade Yusuf Sinan Pașa, born Scipione Cicala (c.1545–1606), kapudan pașa (grand admiral) between 1591–1595 and 1596–1601 (public domain) 422
22 Map of the Barbary (Maghreb / Northern Africa / Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya) from Gerardus Mercator, Atlas Minor, engraved by Jan Cloppenburgh, 1630, Amsterdam (public domain) 524
23 The title page of Histoire de Barbarie et de ses corsaires (Paris, 1637), Par le R.P.F. Pierre Dan, Ministre et Superieur du Convent de la Ste Trinité, et Redemption des Captifs 567
24 François Savary de Brèves’ signature, affixed to a letter dated March 23, 1600, which was sent from Pera (Istanbul) to King Henri IV (BnF, Fr. 16144, 280v). 601