page_title: Jean Alfonse
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Alfonse / Works
context_page_description: Jean Fonteneau, dit Alfonse de Saintonge or João Afonso in Portuguese was a Portuguese navigator, explorer and corsair, prominent in the European age of discovery. He had an early career in Portugal and later served the King of France.
context_section_description: His writings were published as Les voyages avantureux du Capitaine Ian Alfonce (1559), the Rutter of Jean Alphonse (1600) and La cosmographie avec l’espère et régime du soleil du nord par Jean Fonteneau dit Alfonse de Saintonge, capitaine-pilote de François Ier (1904). In them he describes the various places and peoples he and others have seen, many of them for the first time in print (such as Gaspé, the Beothuk, Saint-Pierre Island, the jewels of Madagascar, a continent south of Java) and provides navigational instructions on how to get there.
caption: Jave La Grande's east coast: from Nicholas Vallard's atlas, 1547. Copy held by the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2393 National Library of Australia
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