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Jew in the Holy Land
Eugène Roger
1646
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Eugène Roger was a Franciscan missionary who spent time in the Holy Land between 1629 and 1634 and served as a physician to Druze leader and Ottoman governor Fakhr al-Din II (ca. 1572–1635). Roger wrote about his experiences in the Middle East in La terre saincte (The Holy Land), first published in France in 1646.
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