talked about to him, Castelnau, and that it would not involve touching Spanish or Portuguese possessions, since their conquests would be left to the right and the left, following “la droicte ligne du Midy après avoir passé l’equinoxe (the direct course to the South after passing the Equator)”. Furthermore, cosmographers who had written about it and pilots who had been there said it was “le derriere de la terre ferme pour aller par tout le monde (the last continental land reached in all the world)”. Having some knowledge of the matter from d’Albaigne himself and from other pilots in addition to what he had learned when in Portugal, Castelnau ended his report by offering to lead an expedition there in person. Finally, in November 1580, reporting upon the return of Drake, the ambassador again mentioned Francisque d’Albaigne in connection with Drake's alleged sighting, after passing the Cape of Good Hope, of “une des terres australles et meridionalle qui ne sont descouvertes (one of the undiscovered austral and southern lands)”, lands the Italian had proposed for conquest. Unfortunately, a France exhausted by the French Wars of Religion was hardly in a state to respond to La Popelinière's maritime and colonial proposals. See also Dieppe maps Identifiants et Référentiels References 1541 births 1608 deaths French male non-fiction writers French Renaissance humanists Huguenots People of the French Wars of Religion 16th-century French historians Theoretical continents