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Christophe Richer de Thorigny () (1514?-1552/53) was valet de chambre to Francis I, a secretary to Cardinal Antoine Duprat, and a French ambassador of the 16th century. He was born in Thorigny. He was ambassador to Scandinavia and Germany.〔''A history of France, 1460-1560: the emergence of a nation state'' by David Potter p.77 ()〕 In the 1530s, Christophe Richer was sent by Francis I to Constantinople. 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''.〔''Robert Estienne, royal printer: an historical study of the elder Stephanus'' by Elizabeth Armstrong p.144 ()〕 In 1541, Francis I sent Christophe Richer to Denmark and Sweden, the first official French embassy to a Protestant state.〔(''Renaissance diplomacy'' by Garrett Mattingly p.153 )〕 Richer was French ambassador to Denmark in 1547.〔 ==Works== *''De rebus Turcarum ad Franciscum Gallorum regem Christianiss'' by Christophe Richer () *''Des Coustumes et manières de vivre des Turcs'' by Christophe Richer () Some authors had been considered his work about the Fall of Constantinople as an account of an eyewitness (certain unknown Riccherio), but it was later discovered that it was actually Christophe Richer who composed his testimony of this event based on the work of several historians, such as Egnatius Cipelli, Flavio Biondo, Bartolomeo Platina, Michele Ricci, Robert Gaugin, Paolo Giovio and Andrea Cambini. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christophe Richer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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