page_title: Jean de Dinteville
hierarchical_section_title: Jean de Dinteville
caption_attribution_description: Jean de Dinteville, aged 29, 1533. Detail of The Ambassadors Jean de Dinteville was the French ambassador to England in 1533.
context_page_description: Jean de Dinteville was a French diplomat. He is the left-hand figure in Holbein's 1533 painting The Ambassadors, painted whilst he was French ambassador to London, and which he presumably commissioned. Dinteville's motto was Memento mori, meaning "Remember thou shalt die."
context_section_description: Jean de Dinteville (1504–1555) was a French diplomat. He is the left-hand figure in Holbein's 1533 painting The Ambassadors, painted whilst he was French ambassador to London, and which he presumably commissioned.  Dinteville's motto was Memento mori, meaning "Remember thou shalt die."
caption: Detail from The Ambassadors
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