Andre Du Ryer and Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France

Andr Du Ryer was an important and influential seventeenth-century orientalist and diplomat: French vice-consul in Egypt from 1623 to 1626, and adviser and interpreter to the French ambassador in Istanbul, he was also ambassador extraordinary of the sultan to France in the early 1630s. After reconstructing his diplomatic career and his life after his return to France, the authors assess Du Ryer's contribution to Turkish and Persian studies, his influential translation of the Quran, and his manuscript collection. He emerges as an important and influential figure whose significance has never previously been appreciated.