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Author Mokhberi, Susan Marie, author.

Title The Persian mirror : reflections of the Safavid empire in early modern France / Susan Mokhberi
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
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
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
Notes Also issued in print: 2019
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 4, 2020)
Subject 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
SUBJECT France -- Relations -- Iran
Iran -- Relations -- France
France -- Foreign relations -- Iran
Iran -- Foreign relations -- France
Iran -- History -- Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007363
France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051301
Subject France
Iran
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190884826 (ebook)
0190884827 (ebook)