Jean Chardin (16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Safavid Iran and the Near East in general.
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16 November 1643 Paris, France
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5 January 1713 (aged 69) Chiswick, London
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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