Not to be confused with the French logician Jean Nicod.
Jean Nicot de Villemain (French:[ʒɑ̃nikodəvilmɛ̃]; 1530 – May 4, 1604)[1] was a French diplomat and scholar. He is famous for being the first to bring tobacco to France, including snuff tobacco. Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum, which in turn is named after Jean Nicot de Villemain, who sent tobacco and seeds to Paris in 1560, presented it to the French King,[2] and who promoted their medicinal use. Smoking was believed to protect against illness, particularly the plague.[2]
When Nicot returned, he brought tobacco plants. He introduced snuff tobacco to the French royal court.[4] The plant was also an instant success with the Father Superior of Malta, who shared tobacco with all of his monks. More and more of the fashionable people of Paris began to use the plant, making Nicot a celebrity.
Although André Thevet argued that he had introduced tobacco to France,[5] the plant was called Nicotina. But nicotine later came to refer specifically to the particular chemical in the plant. The tobacco plant, Nicotiana, also a flowering garden plant, was named after him by Carl Linnaeus,[3] as was nicotine.[6] Nicot described its believed medicinal properties (1559) and sent it as a medicine to the French court.[3]
French dictionaryEdit
For his service to the French royal court, Nicot was given the name 'de Villemain' and land near Brie-Comte-Robert. There, he compiled one of the first French dictionaries, Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne (published in 1606).[3] His dictionary, according to Ibram X. Kendi, was the first that included an entry for the concept of race.[7] The IETF language tags have registered frm-1606nict for "16th century French as in Jean Nicot, 'Thresor de la langue francoyse', 1606, but also including some French similar to that of Rabelais".[8]
^"IETF Language Subtag Registry". IANA. 2021-08-06. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
External linksEdit
Nuno Vila-Santa, Diplomacy and Humanism: ambassador Jean Nicot and the French-Portuguese maritime rivalry (1559-1561), Anuario de Estudios Americanos, 80, 1, 2023, pp. 43-77. [1]
Website dedicated to Nicot's Thresor 2010-03-02 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
-Search the Thresor online
October 27, 2023
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