Through his writings, images and artifacts, Father Andre Thevet, the King of France's cosmographer, recreated the plants, animals, peoples and geography of the New World. The graphic resources and collections permitted the circulation of information, proved their written registers, and certainly made this data available to the King, nobles and other curious people. The advances of the printing press made it possible to spread the knowledge of the distant world, with the certainty that it reached more and more people, a much larger public, while the collections themselves remained restricted to the scope of the aristocrats. The intention thus is to investigate "American elements" chosen and gathered by Thevet to confirm his trip and make it evident or represented by his contemporaries.
French Antarctic; French Colonization; Andre Thevet
