De la Broquière set off for the Holy Land in 1432 for the purpose of spying out the possibilities of a new crusade to be led by the Duke of Burgundy. He returned overland, through the Turkish Empire, alone. His observations of the land, the people, the rulers, the food and the ...
ing Occitan in this way would have been particularly appreciated by the francophone nobility of the Morea, eager to maintain their connections to their homeland in Europe and threatened by the specters of linguistic and cultural alterity from both fellow Crusaders and the resurgent Byzantine Empire....
This committee established a Bureau d'Etudes geologiques et minieres coloniales, which, with the collaboration of the French Government, was charged with the training of specialists for the investigation of the mineral deposits of the Empire, and with the education of the French public, especially...