Jean Chardin
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"Chardin, who passes for a traveller of veracity, and who was ransomed in Mingrelia, would have spoken of this horrible custom if it had existed; and his ... It is the same with the women of the Antilles Islands, who raised their children to eat them . ... Locke's assertions regarding the saints of the Mahometan religion and their useful quadrupeds, should be placed with Prince Maurice's story of the parrot."--The Ignorant Philosopher (1766) by Voltaire |
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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 Persia and the Near East in general.
