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What is Epilogue: The Beg and the Persian Letters about?

With the publication of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters in 1721, Persians transform from objects of curiosity—as witnessed in the reception of Mohammad Reza Beg in 1715—to objects of critical reflection. The experience of Montesquieu’s two fictional foreigners in France draws from the descriptions of the Beg’s encounter. Moreover, Montesquieu compares France and Persia based upon similarities, such as monarchy and luxury, that the two countries had been known to share. The Persian-French relationship that culminates in the Letters presents a model for France’s relationship to other Asian countries. France imagined foreign countries according to the current context and the French response to Asian countries could not be reproduced by other European nations.

Author

Susan Mokhberi

Published

2019

Language

EN