Jean Chardin

Sir John Chardin FRS
Born	Jean-Baptiste Chardin (1643-11-16)16 November 1643 Paris, Kingdom of France
Died	5 January 1713(1713-01-05) (aged 69) Chiswick, Middlesex, England
Nationality	French and British

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 Safavid Iran and the Near East in general.