Under the reign of Louis XIV, France sees its heure persane. At the moment when Orientalism is born, the Persian journey is political: it is first and foremost geographical and scholarly. But is it really? Based on fictional exoticism, it reveals more about the society of the Grand Siecle than it does about Isfahan.
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