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The Persian Mirror : reflections of the Safavid empire in early modern France / Susan Marie Mokhberi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mokhberi, Susan Marie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- France--Relations--Iran.
- France.
- Iran--Relations--France.
- Iran.
- France--Foreign relations--Iran.
- Iran--Foreign relations--France.
- Iran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736.
- France--History--Bourbons, 1589-1789.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages)
- Other Title:
- Persian Mirror
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- '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 of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction, and printed and painted images, the text 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.
- Contents:
- Missionaries and travelers
- Persia : a courtly east in the French imaginaire
- Against all odds : the diplomatic mission of Pierre-Victor Michel to Persia, 1706-1708
- The Persian embassy to France in 1715 : conflict and understanding
- Images of Mohammad Reza Beg : fashioning the ambassador
- Images of the Persian visit : connections between the Safavid and Bourbon crowns
- The absolutist mirror.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-088482-7
- 0-19-088480-0
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