Bertrand d'Ornesan

[2] For about twenty years, he was a business partner of the Marseilles banker Madeleine Lartessuti, who financed his fleet and was reportedly also his lover.

[3] In 1537, Ornesan began a two-year involvement in operations with the Ottoman Empire under terms of the Franco-Ottoman alliance between Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent.

[4][5] Eventually Suleiman, worried by a plague among his troops,[6] decided to return with his fleet to Istanbul by mid-September without having captured Corfu.

[8] Hayreddin Barbarossa provided for the expenses, and the French galleys finally left on 11 April 1538 to return to Nice through Monastir.

[9] Jean de la Vega, a member of his staff, wrote the account of his travels.