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    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...
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    Jean Siméon Chardin (French: [ʒɑ̃ simeɔ̃ ʃaʁdɛ̃]; November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of...
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  • Chardin is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, (1699–1779), French painter noted for his still life...
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French: [pjɛʁ tɛjaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] listen) (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist...
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    was his power, that the French merchant, and later ambassador to Iran, Jean Chardin thought the Safavid Shahs ruled their land with an iron fist and often...
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    (French: La raie) is a still-life painting by the French artist Jean Simeon Chardin, first exhibited at the Exposition de la Jeunesse [fr] on 3 June...
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    locals call it "beryun" (بریون). Jean-Baptiste Tavernier has written about this food in his own journal. Jean Chardin has written two accounts about beryani...
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    be used, creating richer patterns, sweeter to the eye. According to Jean Chardin, it was the low humidity in the air in Persia that made the colors so...
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    Le Bénédicité) is the title of several paintings by French artist Jean Simeon Chardin, one of which was given as a gift to Louis XV. The subject of the...
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  • people was developed by early modern travellers to the region such as Jean Chardin. The term Caucasian as a racial category was introduced in the 1780s...
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    available in 1711 when duplicates of Darius's inscriptions were published by Jean Chardin. Carsten Niebuhr brought very complete and accurate copies of the inscriptions...
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    (translator). New York: Sheridan House. p. 125. Chardin, Jean (1811). The Travels of Sir John Chardin. Volume 9. Translated by John Pinkerton. London:...
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    18th-century paintings by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Done in oil on canvas, Bubbles - Chardin's first figural painting - depicts a young...
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    (1718–1778) Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631–1681) Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674) Jérôme-François Chantereau (1710?—?) Jean Chardin (1643–1713) Jean Siméon...
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    Jean-Baptiste Drawing of the Tachara by Charles Chipiez The Apadana by Charles Chipiez Apadana detail by Charles Chipiez Persepolis by Jean Chardin,...
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    apology to the descendants of Huguenots around the world. Jean Barbot Jean Chardin de la Font Jean Luzac (see also Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits)...
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    1 °C (55.6 °F). Cool winds blow from east to west, mostly in summer. Jean Chardin, a French traveler, visited Tabriz during the Safavid era, noting the...
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    available in 1711 when duplicates of Darius's inscriptions were published by Jean Chardin. Around 1764, Carsten Niebuhr visited the ruins of Persepolis, and was...
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    Aurangzeb, one of which was his friend Daniel Chardin, diamond merchant and brother of Sir Jean Chardin, Yale's partner in England. He also sent letters...
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  • View of Tbilisi as per French traveller Jean Chardin, 17th century...
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  • Sieur de La Salle (North America) Samuel de Champlain (North America) Jean Chardin (Iran, India) Daniel de la Rivardière (South America) Simon François...
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    eight years at the court of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. 1664–1680: Jean Chardin travels two times to Persia (as well as its dependencies in the Caucasus...
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    Tbilisi according to French traveler Jean Chardin, 1671...
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    Engraving of Etchmiadzin by Jean Chardin, 1670s...
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    structure were made in the seventeenth century by European tourists like Jean Chardin, Engelbert Kaempfer and Cornelis de Bruijn in their travel books; but...
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    the name "Iran" has replaced other names of Iran in the western world. Jean Chardin, who travelled in the region between 1673 and 1677, observed that "the...
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    16th/17th Quebec, Great Lakes Chang Chun Chinese 13th Central Asia, Mongolia Jean Chardin French 17th Persia, India Semion Chelyuskin Russian 18th Great Northern...
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    had a caravanserai. Traders of Indian background were mentioned by Jean Chardin, Jean de Thévenot, Adam Olearius and F. A. Kotov in the Safavid dynasty...
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    The Kitchen Maid is a 1738 oil-on-canvas painting by Jean Simeon Chardin. The painting features a young kitchen maid in a Hollandish kitchen, taking a...
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    street. In his The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient, 17th-century French traveler Jean Chardin wrote: The Armenians have a way of roasting...
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