Persian Mirror
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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 of the Persian ambassador''s visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and pr...
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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 of the Persian ambassador''s visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and pr...
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