Unrealized Project: Rousseausâ Plan of Franco-Persian Trade in the Context of the Indian Expedition (1807)
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The paper focuses on Tableau général de la Perse moderne ou mémoire géographique, historique et politique sur la situation actuelle de cet Empireâan unpublished manuscript by Joseph Rousseau, a French diplomat and orientalist. Dated 1807 and kept in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, this document was compiled by Napoléonâs order, and was supposed to give complete information about the situation in Persia, in regard with Napoléonâs planned Indian campaign. Although the Indian expedition was not realized, the manuscript became an important document of its epoch. It consists of fourteen chapters and covers such aspects as history, geography, administrative decision, religion, traditions, art, Fath-Ali Shah and his circle, military potential, foreign relations, trade etc..
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