HOMMAIRE de HELL, IGNACE XAVIER MORAND, French engineer, geographer, traveler (b. Altkirch, Haut-Rhin, 24 November 1812; d. Isfahan, 29 August…

GROUSSET, RENÉ (b. Aubais, Gard, France, 5 September 1885; d. Paris, 12 September 1952; Figure 1), French historian who based…

GAUDEREAU, MARTIN (b. Langeais,in Indre-et-Loire, France, 1663; d. Paris, 29 May 1743), French missionary priest (and later Abbé) who left…

LAURENS, Jules Joseph Augustin, French artist in drawing, painting, and lithography who depicted Oriental and other subjects (b. 26 July…

FERRIER, JOSEPH PHILIPPE (b. 12 April 1811, Lyon. d. 6 November 1886, Marseille). French soldier in the Persian service (1839-42,…