What was first brought to Europe by Francisco Fernandes, and sent as a treat by Jean Nicot to Catherine de Medici?
Jean Nicot Jean Nicot Jean Nicot (; ; 1530 – May 4, 1604) was a French diplomat and scholar. "Famous" Nicot is famous because that he was the first to bring the tobacco to France. One of them was the snuff tobacco. Jean Nicot was born in 1530 in Nîmes, in the south of France. His father was a notary. He was educated in Toulouse and Paris. Nicot served as the French ambassador in Lisbon, Portugal from 1559 to 1561, under King Henry II. As a 29-year-old in 1559, he was sent from France to Portugal to negotiate the marriage of six-year-old
Jean Nicot a flowering garden plant, was named after him by Carl Linnaeus, as was nicotine. Nicot described its believed medicinal properties (1559) and sent it as a medicine to the French court. 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). His dictionary, according to Ibram X. Kendi, was the first that included an entry for the concept of race. He died on May 4, 1604 in Paris, France. Jean