Doubdain, Jean

Doubdain, Jean a French traveller, was canon of St. Denis in France. In 1651 he sailed from Marseilles for Jaffa, and arrived at Jerusalem, March 30, 1652. He thereafter visited Bethlehem, Jericho, Mt. Carmel, Haifa or Caiphas, Galilee, Nazareth, Canaan, Mt. Tabor, Acre, and Sidon, thence home, by way of Genoa. through Italy, and back to St. Denis, November 22, 1652. He wrote an account of his travels under the title, Le Voyage de la Terre Sainte (Paris, 1661, 1662, and 1666). Doubdain died about the year 1670. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.