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Guy Tachard (1651 - 1712)

French Jesuit missionary and mathematician. He participated in two embassies to Siam on behalf of Louis XIV (1695, 1687). He returned in to Siam 1699 and travelled to Asia again in 1712. He published accounts of his visits in A Relation of the Voyage to Siam (1688) and Second Voyage (1689).
Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Tachard Relevant locations: Visited Thailand, Asia
 Relationships: Guy Tachard was a employed by Louis XIV of France (1638-1715)

 References in Documents:
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 15. Cross-back'd Cape Lizard Cat. 402. A very particular Animal which I should be glad to see. I figured it from Father Tachard's Cape designs. It's less venemous than the next.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 3. Tachard's yellow Cape Dogs-bane. Cat. 448. This has much narrower Leaves than the last, the Flowers turn back. Father Tachard in his Second Voyage to Siam, hath given a Figure of this and several others, taken from Cape Paintings.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 3. Tachard's yellow Cape Dogs-bane. Cat. 448. This has much narrower Leaves than the last, the Flowers turn back. Father Tachard in his Second Voyage to Siam, hath given a Figure of this and several others, taken from Cape Paintings.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 4. The Radiated Cape Nosegay. Cat. 495. Father Tachard has figured this elegant Bulb, but without Leaves, a Tassel of which Mr. John Starremburg sent me from thence.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 6. Tachard's Cape yellowish Star-flower. Cat. 493. This Bulb is figured in that Fathers Voyage to Siam, it's also amongst the Bishop of London's Paintings.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) Fig. 1. COmmonCommon smooth Cape Aloe. Cat. 464. The Leaves edged and spotted with white, the Flowers red, but yellow next the Stalk. Father Tachard's Figure seems the same, but that he has omitted the white Spots in the Leaves. The Flower in the Bishop of London's Paintings are all red and somewhat longer; nevertheless I take them all to be the same.