Charles de Ferriol

Charles de Ferriol (1652-1722) between 1703 and 1711

Charles de Ferriol (1652–1722) was a French ambassador sent by Louis XIV to the Ottoman Empire from 1699 to 1711, during the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.^[1][2]

A painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour, who had accompanied him on his mission to Istanbul, shows his reception by the Sultan.

Ferriol is also known as the man who brought to France the epistolary writer Mlle Aïsse, a Circassian slave he had bought in Istanbul. His attempts to gain sexual favors from her became the subject of numerous books and biographies, notably the Abbé Prévost's Histoire d’une Grecque moderne (1740).

Ahmed III receiving the embassy of Charles de Ferriol. (painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour in 1724.)

See also

• French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
• Franco-Ottoman alliance

Notes

1. ^ French profiles p.37 Edmund Gosse
2. ^ Napoleon and Persia: Franco-Persian relations under the First Empire‎ Iradj Amini p.18 [1]

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Name	Ferriol, Charles De
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Date of birth	1652
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Date of death	1722
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