Jean Chardin

Not to be confused with Jean Siméon Chardin.

Sir
Jean Chardin
FRS
Born
Jean-Baptiste Chardin

(1643-11-16)16 November 1643
Paris, France
Died5 January 1713(1713-01-05) (aged 69)
Chiswick, Middlesex

Jean Chardin (born Jean-Baptiste Chardin; 16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713), known as Sir John Chardin in England, was a French-born English jeweller, traveller and writer 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.

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