Jean Nicot de Villemain (French: [ʒɑ̃ niko də vilmɛ̃]; 1530 – 4 May 1604) was a French diplomat and scholar. He is famous for being the first to bring...

descendance Emmanuelle Nicot (born 1985), French filmmaker and screenwriter Jean Nicot (1530–1600), French diplomat and scholar Jean-Louis Nicot (1911–2004), commander...

Jean-Louis Nicot (14 February 1911, in Paris – 29 August 2004) was a French Air Force general. He was the commander of the French Air transport fleet during...

Nicotiana (from which the word nicotine is derived) was named in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent samples as a medicine...

Americans also used tobacco for medicinal purposes. The French diplomat Jean Nicot used a tobacco poultice as an analgesic, and Nicolás Monardes advocated...

century and concentrated in Sweden. Its origin lies in an invention by Jean Nicot (1530–1600), a French diplomat residing in Portugal who cultivated tobacco...

were the first recorded peoples to use it and cultivate it. In 1560, Jean Nicot de Villemain, then French ambassador to Portugal, brought tobacco seeds...

after Columbus' second voyage to the Americas during 1493-1496. In 1561, Jean Nicot, the French ambassador in Lisbon, Portugal, sent naswar to Catherine de'...

Stéphanie Nicot (born 13 May 1952 in Saint-Brieuc)[citation needed] is a French essayist, anthologist, and literary critic, specialized in science fiction...

tobacco at first, and Spain's second largest building at the time. In 1561 Jean Nicot, the French ambassador in Lisbon, Portugal, who described tobacco's medicinal...