Career
Coppin travelled to Egypt in 1638, where he stayed for eighteen months. He returned to France with a cargo of antiquities for sale but was raided by Mallorcan pirates. A second voyage was undertaken 1642-1646, where he was in the Levant, visiting Tunis and Syria, and became consul at Damietta in 1644.
He returned to Europe, with firm plans for a crusade, but the authorities were not interested at all.
Subsequently he decided to publish his work, hoping to find the public more willing to listen to his plans.
