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Jean Chardin

French jeweler, traveler and author · France · On the map · Writers · Lived 1643 to 1713 · aged 69

Jean Chardin, known as Sir John Chardin in England, was a French jeweller, traveller and writer, who emigrated to England in 1681, at the age of 37. His 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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France
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1643 to 1713 · aged 69