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Jean Chardin

1643 - 1713

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Chardin is the 149th most popular explorer (down from 124th in 2019), the 1,744th most popular biography from France (down from 1,574th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean Chardin ranks 149 out of 498. Before him are Afanasy Nikitin, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Gan Ying, Samuel Wallis, Semyon Dezhnev, and Adam Johann von Krusenstern. After him are Isabella Bird, Rodrigo de Triana, Vladimir Arsenyev, Alexandrine Tinné, João da Nova, and Ahmad ibn Rustah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1643, Jean Chardin ranks 11. Before him are Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Alessandro Stradella, Johann Adam Reincken, and Ilona Zrínyi. After him are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Fran Krsto Frankopan, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Bahadur Shah I, Godfried Schalcken, and Vasily Golitsyn. Among people deceased in 1713, Jean Chardin ranks 7. Before him are Arcangelo Corelli, Frederick I of Prussia, Juraj Jánošík, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, and Carlo Maratta. After him are Michael II Apafi, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Jahandar Shah, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Pavao Ritter Vitezović, and Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Chardin ranks 1,744 out of 6,770. Before him are William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (1024), Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (1260), Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734), Walter Krüger (1890), Jean-Luc Dehaene (1940), and Jules de Goncourt (1830). After him are Adhemar of Le Puy (1055), Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848), François-Henri Pinault (1962), Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926), Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743), and William of Gellone (750).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean Chardin ranks 13. Before him are Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705). After him are Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Sophie Blanchard (1778), and Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867).

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