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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 154,376 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jean Chardin is the 124th most popular explorer (up from 130th in 2019), the 1,574th most popular biography from France (up from 1,650th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Explorer.

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  • 5.61

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  • 2.05

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jean Chardin ranks 124 out of 498. Before him are Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Himilco, Hans Staden, Alvise Cadamosto, Pedro de Mendoza, and Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. After him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Salomon August Andrée, Afanasy Nikitin, Isabella Bird, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and Adam Olearius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1643, Jean Chardin ranks 10. Before him are Afonso VI of Portugal, Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, Alessandro Stradella, Bahadur Shah I, Johann Adam Reincken, and Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado. After him are Fran Krsto Frankopan, Ilona Zrínyi, Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Jean-Baptiste Denys, and Vasily Golitsyn. Among people deceased in 1713, Jean Chardin ranks 6. Before him are Frederick I of Prussia, Arcangelo Corelli, Juraj Jánošík, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. After him are Carlo Maratta, Jahandar Shah, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Michael II Apafi, 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 1,574 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis I, Count of Flanders (1304), Joseph Bédier (1864), Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (1563), André Martinet (1908), Emmanuel Petit (1970), and Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (1465). After him are Corinne Cléry (1950), Audrey Tautou (1976), Arman (1928), Louis Couturat (1868), Patrice Chéreau (1944), and Edmond Debeaumarché (1906).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jean Chardin ranks 11. Before him are Samuel de Champlain (1567), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), and Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701). After him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Henri Mouhot (1826), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), René Caillié (1799), and Sophie Blanchard (1778).

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