Chardin, Jean

Chardin, Jean

▪ French explorer
also called  (from 1681) Sir John Chardin  
born Nov. 16, 1643, Paris, Fr.
died Dec. 25, 1713, London, Eng.

      French traveler to the Middle East and India.

      A jeweler's son with an excellent education, Chardin traveled with a Lyon merchant to Persia and India in 1665. At Eṣfahān, Persia, he enjoyed the patronage of the shah, ʿAbbās II. On returning to France (1670), he published an account of the coronation of Soleymān.

      In August 1671 he again set out for Persia. Traveling through Turkey, the Crimea, and the Caucasus, he reached Eṣfahān nearly two years later. He remained in Persia for four years, revisited India, and returned to France (1677) via the Cape of Good Hope. Fleeing French persecution of the Huguenots (1681), he settled in London, where he became court jeweler and was knighted by King Charles II. In 1683 he represented the East India Company in Holland.

      The complete account of his travels first appeared in Journal du voyage du chevalier Chardin (1711; “Journal of the Travel of the Cavalier Chardin”).

Additional Reading
Ronald W. Ferrier (trans. and ed.), A Journey to Persia: Jean Chardin's Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Empire (1996).

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