 She was well-educated and spoke fluent Spanish, French, and Quechua, and understood the use of quipus, the Incan method of communicating information using colored strings and knots.Jean Godin des Odonais was a French cartographer and naturalist who had joined the world's first geodesy expedition to the equator.The team worked in the Quito region from 1735 to 1744, during which time Jean and Isabel met.