TY - BOOK ID - 77874049 TI - Persian letters AU - Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat AU - Mauldon, Margaret AU - Kahn, Andrew PY - 2008 SN - 1281515264 9786611515263 0191539635 9780191539633 9780192806352 0192806351 9781281515261 6611515267 0191604887 9780191604881 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Iranians KW - Iranis KW - Persians KW - Ethnology KW - Indo-Iranians UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874049 AB - Two Persian travelers arrive in Paris and report on the European society of the Enlightenment in their letters home. With biting satire they compare East and West, while unsettling news from the harem provides a suspenseful plot of jealousy and passion. This is the first English translation based on the original text. - ;'Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?'. Two Persian travelers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the hedonism and financial crash of the Regency. In their letters home they rep ER -