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The Persian mirror : French reflections of the Safavid empire in early modern France
- Title
- The Persian mirror : French reflections of the Safavid empire in early modern France / Susan Mokhberi.
- Author
- Mokhberi, Susan Marie
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 223 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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 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.
- Subject
- 1501-1799
- Travelers' writings, French > Iran > History and criticism
- Visits of state > France > History > 18th century
- Orientalism > France > History > 18th century
- Diplomatic relations
- International relations
- Orientalism
- Ṣafavid Dynasty (Iran)
- Travelers' writings, French
- Visits of state
- France > Relations > Iran
- Iran > Relations > France
- France > Foreign relations > Iran
- Iran > Foreign relations > France
- Iran > History > Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736
- France > History > Bourbons, 1589-1789
- France
- Iran
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-2289
- ISBN
- 9780190884796
- 0190884797
- LCCN
- 2019013215
- 40029573108
- OCLC
- 1111638764
- Author
- Mokhberi, Susan Marie, author.
- Title
- The Persian mirror : French reflections of the Safavid empire in early modern France / Susan Mokhberi.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1501-1799
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029573108
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-2289