This Lyonnais, who signed his letters in Latin with the title of Janus Verrazanus, was a good explorer, the initially European to investigate the east coastline of the North American continent. If we do not know if Jean de Verrazane was born in Lyon or in Italy, the mothers and fathers of small Giovanni da Verrazzano married in 1480 in the capital of Gaul and had near ties with the Gadagne spouse and children who participated in the financing of his expeditions.
At the services of Francis I.is, it was in 1522 that Jean de Verrazane was fascinated by the tales of Magellan’s vacation companions. Amassing the needed resources, he embarked in 1524 aboard his caravel, The dolphinidentifying the “Indies”.
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In just below two months he touched the American coasts, on the North Carolina side, then headed north and found out the New York Bay on April 17, 1524. He will connect with it La Nouvelle-Angoulême in homage to Francis Iiscount of Angoulême, and planted the flag of the king of France there.
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But the Lyonnais leaves this territory with no structures and proceeds his journey to Labrador (Canada), before returning to France. Right after succumbing to the journey virus, he tried to cross the Cape of Good Hope in 1526, unsuccessfully, then remaining for the West Indies two many years later, exactly where he was certainly killed by the natives …
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