Charles de Ferriol
Charles de Ferriol (1652-1722) between 1703 and 1711
Charles de Ferriol (1652–1722) was a French ambassador sent by Louis XIV to the Ottoman Empire from 1692 to 1711, during the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.[1][2]
A painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour, who had accompanied him on his mission to Constantinople, shows his reception by the Sultan.
Ferriol is also known as the man who brought to France the epistolary writer Charlotte Aïssé, a Circassian slave he had bought in Constantinople. His attempts to gain sexual favors from her became the subject of numerous books and biographies, notably the Abbé Prévost's Histoire d’une Grecque moderne (1740).
Ahmed III receiving the embassy of Charles de Ferriol. (painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour in 1724.)
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Notes
- ↑ French profiles p.37 Edmund Gosse
- ↑ Napoleon and Persia: Franco-Persian relations under the First Empire Iradj Amini p.18
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