Charles de Ferriol (1652–1722) was a French ambassador sent by

Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Vers ...

to the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

from 1692 to 1711, during the rule of Sultan

Ahmed III Ahmed III ( ota, احمد ثالث, ''Aḥmed-i sālis'') was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687). His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at H ...

.''Napoleon and Persia: Franco-Persian relations under the First Empire'' Iradj Amini p.1

/ref> A painting by

Jean-Baptiste van Mour Jean Baptiste Vanmour or Van Mour (9 January 1671 – 22 January 1737)Faroqhi pp443 was a Flemish- French painter, remembered for his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III. Biog ...

, who had accompanied him on his mission to Constantinople, shows his reception by the Sultan. Ferriol is also known as the man who brought to France the epistolary writer

Charlotte Aïssé Charlotte Aïssé (a corruption of Haïdé; – 13 March 1733), French letter-writer, was the daughter of a Circassians, Circassian chief, and was born about 1694. Life Her father's palace was pillaged by the Ottoman Empire, Turks, and as a chi ...

, a Circassian slave he had bought in Constantinople. His alleged attempts to gain sexual favours from her, never confirmed by Aïssé herself, became the subject of numerous books and biographies, notably the

Abbé Prévost Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles ( , , ; 1 April 169725 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. Life and works He was born at Hesdin, Artois, and first appears with the full nam ...

's ''Histoire d’une Grecque moderne'' (1740).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferriol, Charles De Ambassadors of France to the Ottoman Empire 1652 births 1722 deaths 17th-century French diplomats 18th-century French diplomats

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