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About Jean Chardin
Jean Chardin, known as Sir John Chardin in England, was a French jeweller, traveller and writer, who emigrated to England in 1681, at the age of 37. His 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.
Everything about Jean Chardin →- Occupation
- traveler, writer, merchant
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- November 16, 1643, November 25, 1643
- Died
- January 5, 1713, December 25, 1713, January 26, 1713