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Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (born 1643)

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Jean Chardin

French-born English jeweller, traveller and writer (1643–1713)

Jean Chardin, 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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January 5

Day of the year

January 5 is the fifth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 360 days remain until the end of the year.
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