Alexandre Exquemelin
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Alexandre Exquemelin
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Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin was a French, Dutch, or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678. Born about 1645, it is likely that Exquemelin was a native of Honfleur, France, who on his return from buccaneering settled in Holland, possibly because he was a Huguenot. In 1666 he was engaged by the French West India Company and went to Tor
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French, Dutch or Flemish writer
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2024-04-10T08:48:08Z
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