Jean de Léry

Either way, he was not a public figure prior to accompanying a small group of fellow Protestants to their new colony on an island in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 1557 to 1558.

With the main goals set at Protestant Reformation, these men face many more challenges than expected, however make discoveries and encounter new things beyond their wildest dreams.

Léry devoted the tenth chapter of his account of the siege to describing and evaluating this episode of European Protestant cannibalism.

Historian Adam Asher Duker has argued that Léry equated the residents of Sancerre with the cannibalistic Israelites of the Old Testament, and that he believed his own Huguenot community to be the worst of all cannibals, as they ate each other despite their highest understanding of the will of God.

[4] In 1829, botanist José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo published a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Icacinaceae, as Leretia in his honour.