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The Persian mirror : French reflections of the Safavid empire in early modern France

Mokhberi, Susan Marie, author

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The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Travelers' writings, French Iran History and criticism. / Visits of state France History 18th century. / Orientalism France History 18th century. / France Relations Iran. / Iran Relations France. / France Foreign relations Iran. / Iran Foreign relations France. / Iran History ٍSafavid dynasty, 1501-1736. / France History Bourbons, 1589-1789.
• ISBN: 9780190884796

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DC59.8.I55 M65 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE