"Guillaume-Joseph Grelot"

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French traveler painter, which has been specifically recognized as the book "Relation Nouvelle d's Voyage á Constantinople" in Turkey. Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, a town of Melun, connected to the Seine-et-Marne region of Aslen France, was born about 1630 and died precisely in an unknown date after 1680. In the beginning of 1670s, Grelot arrived in Istanbul and remained two years. The French traveler and gem trader who came here before became friends with Jean Chardin, then he continued his journey until İsfahan.

Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, known for its detailed Istanbul panorama cizim, is also known as painter that draws the plans of Hagia Sophia and Süleymaniye Mosque for the first time. The Grelot’s work “To make sure that they’re going to be dominated with the request of the places where they’re going to take to be dominated by when they’ve always sent the muzaffer army there” XIV. He presented to Luis. There are quite detailed information about the structure of the Turkish society and various aspects of everyday life, besides Istanbul’s general view, palaces, mosques and gardens. It also increases the value of the trip to the place of engravings that support their expression.

The two other seyyah who knows Istanbul, is not calm but also Istanbul, talks about Grelot praises from this book and the author, such as seyyah. F. Bernier "Everyone who visited the countries of the country had to say that Monsieur Grelot did work as useful as the pictures they publish on this book. The drawings I showed to me reveal that I’m located in advance and approaching the side are observed with great accuracy even the most difficult things to determine such as plans, profiles. That’s why I feel that I have to deliver myself to it, and I inform the public that they are extremely appropriate to the places they represent in the drawings. Gallant, the other of these seyyahs, would be wrong to refuse to confirm the perfect pictures that "Monsieur Grelot revealed. In Istanbul, in the Aegean Islands, in Cyprus and Syria, the places I saw were very good and natural. I’ve reviewed the other pictures of the places I’m not seeing, I believe that they’re right until I’ve seen their originals.

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