French reflections of the Safavid empire in early modern France /
First Statement of Responsibility
Susan Mokhberi.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2019]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 224 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Orientalism-- France-- History-- 18th century.
Travelers' writings, French-- Iran-- History and criticism.
Visits of state-- France-- History-- 18th century.
Diplomatic relations.
International relations.
Kulturaustausch
Orientalism-- France-- History-- 18th century.
Orientalism.
Relations extérieures-- France-- Iran-- 17e siècle.
Relations extérieures-- France-- Iran-- 18e siècle.
Relations extérieures-- Iran-- France-- 17e siècle.
Relations extérieures-- Iran-- France-- 18e siècle.
Ṣafavid Dynasty (Iran)
Travelers' writings, French-- Iran-- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, French.
Visits of state-- France-- History-- 18th century.