Jean Chardin

Sir
John Chardin
Born
Jean-Baptiste Chardin

(1643-11-16)16 November 1643
Paris, France
Died5 January 1713(1713-01-05) (aged 69)
Chiswick, London, UK
NationalityFrench and British

Jean Chardin (16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Safavid Iran and the Near East in general.


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