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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Chardin has received more than 140,286 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jean Chardin is the 131st most popular explorer (down from 127th in 2019), the 1,656th most popular biography from France (down from 1,514th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean Chardin ranks 131 out of 405. Before him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Himilco, João Vaz Corte-Real, Isabelle Eberhardt, Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. After him are António de Abreu, Rodrigo de Triana, Adam Olearius, Gan Ying, Frederick de Houtman, and Francisco Serrão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1643, Jean Chardin ranks 13. Before him are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, Johann Adam Reincken, Bahadur Shah I, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and Ilona Zrínyi. After him are Fran Krsto Frankopan, Jean-Baptiste Denys, and Vasily Golitsyn. Among people deceased in 1713, Jean Chardin ranks 6. Before him are Arcangelo Corelli, Frederick I of Prussia, Juraj Jánošík, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. After him are Carlo Maratta, Jahandar Shah, Michael II Apafi, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Chardin ranks 1,656 out of 6,011. Before him are René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), Louis, Prince of Condé (1668), Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), and Jean Rouch (1917). After him are Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Raymond Domenech (1952), Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Édouard Roche (1820), Joan, Countess of Flanders (1200), and Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (1213).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean Chardin ranks 12. Before him are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643). After him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), and Henri Mouhot (1826).

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