November 16, 2022 Jean Chardin, Elizabeth Fox, Denys Zirngiebel, Amelie, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso, and Shirley Hibberd
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1643 Birth of Sir Jean Chardin, French jeweler and traveler.
Jean is remembered for his ten-volume work, The Travels of Sir John Chardin, which is considered one of the most important early accounts of Persia and the Near East.
In Travels, Jean wrote about the Persian love language of tulips.
When a young man presents a tulip to his mistress he gives her to understand, by the general color of the flower that he…
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