See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS PETIS DE LA CROIX (1653-1713)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Orientalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1653 . He was son of the Arabic interpreter of the French See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court, and inherited this See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office at his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1695, afterwards transmitting it to his own son, See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

Alexandre See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis See also:

• MARIE

Marie, who also distinguished himself in See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental studies . At an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he was sent by See also:

• COLBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE (1619-1683)

Colbert to the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East; during the ten years he spent in See also:

• SYRIA

Syria, See also:

• PERSIA

Persia and See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey he mastered Arabic, See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian and See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish, and also collected See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich materials for future writings . He served a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time as secretary to the French See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador in See also:

• MOROCCO

Morocco, and accompanied as interpreter the French forces sent against See also:

• ALGIERS (Fr. Alger, Arab. Jezair, i.e. The Islands)

Algiers, contributing to the satisfactory See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement of the treaty of See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace, which was See also:

• DRAWN

drawn up by himself in Turkish and ratified in 1684 . He conducted the negotiations with See also:

• TUNIS

Tunis and See also:

• TRIPOLI
• TRIPOLI (Tarabulus el-Gharb, i.e. Tripoli of the West)
• TRIPOLI, or TARABULUS (anc. Tripolis)

Tripoli in 1685, and those with Morocco in 1687; and the zeal, tact and linguistic knowledge he manifested in these and other transactions with Eastern courts were at last rewarded in 1692 by his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment to the Arabic See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair in the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College Royal de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, which he filled until his death in 1713 . He published Conies turcs (Paris, 1707), and See also:

• LES

Les Mille et un jours (5 vols., Paris, 1710–1712); an Armenian See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary and an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

Account of See also:

• ETHIOPIA, or AETHIOPIA (Gr. AlOtoaia)

Ethiopia . But the lasting See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument of his See also:

• LITERARY

literary fame is his excellent French version of Sharaf-uddin `See also:

• ALI

Ali Yazdi's Zafarnama or See also:

• HISTORY

History of Timur (completed 828 A.H.; A.D . 1425), which was given to the See also:

• WORLD

world nine years after his death (4 vols., Paris, 1722; Eng. trans. by J . Darby, See also:

• LONDON

London, 1723) . This See also:

• WORK

work, one of the rare specimens of a fairly See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical history Persia can boast of, was compiled under the auspices of Mirza See also:

• IBRAHIM

Ibrahim See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

Sultan, the son of Shah Rukh and See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson of the See also:

• GREAT

great Timur . The only See also:

• ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error committed by Petis de la Croix in his otherwise very correct See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation is that he erroneously ascribed the important See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share which Ibrahim Sultan had in the Zafarnama to Timur himself .