Talk:The Abyssinian

The historical Poncet's name
Who is mentioned in an existing Wikipedia article, Iyasu I, but as Charles Jacques Poncet, not Jean-Baptiste. The account of the historical Poncet's visit to the court of Iyasu I can be read in William Foster, The Red Sea and Adjacent Countries (London, Hakluyt Society, 1949) & a pdf can be found at archive.org; James Bruce recounts the background of this adventure in his history of Ethiopia (online copies at both archive.org & Wikisource); & also see Theodore Natsoulas, "A Failure of Early French Expansionism in Africa: The French-Jesuit Effort in Ethiopia at the Turn of the 18th Century", Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 36 (2003), pp. 5-18. (This novel only makes Poncet more notable & worth an article.) -- llywrch (talk) 17:19, 8 March 2023 (UTC)