by Jean de Léry · Hachette Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011681355
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«Voyage en terre de Brésil» is the travel account by Jean de Léry, published by Hachette Education in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Jean de Léry narrates in the first person his journey to sixteenth-century Brazil, where French Protestants attempt to found a colony in the bay of Rio de Janeiro. Expelled by the expedition's leader, he lives among the indigenous people and describes their customs, the fauna and the flora of a world that Europeans barely knew.
Edition from the Bibliocollège collection number 26, with adapted and annotated extracts, comprehension questions, iconographic documents and a presentation of the author and his era.
For secondary school students in the French educational curriculum who need support to read and analyze this classic.
Jean de Léry (1534/1536–1613) was an explorer, writer, and Reformed pastor born in Lamargelle, Côte-d'Or, France. Scholars disagree about whether he was a member of the lesser nobility or merely a shoemaker. Either way, he was not a public figure prior to accompanying a small group of fellow Protestants to their new colony on an island in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 1557 to 1558. There he produced the first known transcriptions of native American music: two chants of the Tupinambá, near Rio de Janeiro. The colony, France Antarctique was founded by the Chevalier de Villegaignon, with promises of religious freedom, but on arrival, the Chevalier contested the Protestants' beliefs and persecuted them. After eight months, the Protestants left their colony and survived for a short time on the mainland, living amongst the Tupinambá Indians. These events were the basis of de Lery's book, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (1578). Exhausted and starving, they then returned to France aboard a pirate ship.
