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Jean-Louis d'Usson

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French ambassador Marquis de Bonnac being received by Sultan Ahmed III.
Reception of the children of Marquis de Bonnac by the Ottoman Sultan, by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.

Jean Louis d'Usson, Marquis de Bonnac was French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1713. One of his main missions was to assure that the Ottoman Empire remained a threat to the Habsburgs, the main rival of France in Europe,[1] a regular objective of the Franco-Ottoman alliance. He wrote Mémoire historique sur l'Ambassade de France à Constantinople.[2]

Reception of the children of Marquis de Bonnac by the Ottoman Sultan (detail).

Notes

  1. ^ The Islamic world in decline by Martin Sicker p.50
  2. ^ History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey by Stanford J. Shaw p.322
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Preceded by French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
1713–1724 		Succeeded by

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