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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Jean Chardin Biography CHARDIN, JEAN (SIR JOHN) (1643-1713). A French-English traveler, born in Paris. In 1664-69 and again in 1671-75 he made extensive journeys to Persia and India, where he had many adventures and acquired much wealth by trade in jewels. Partly because he was a Protestant, in 1681 he settled in London, where he was knighted by Charles II. In 1683 he became representative of the East India Company in the Netherlands and devoted his later years to Oriental studies. In 1656 he published a portion of the Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, which was completed in a French version in 1711. The best reprint is by Langlés (Paris, 1811). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. V (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 49-50. |