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- Title
JEAN-LOUIS CARRA AND THE ROMANIANS.
- Authors
Oncescu, Iulian; Oncescu, Laura
- Abstract
One of the Western travellers that went through the Romanian area during the second half of the 18th century was the French Jean-Louis Carra (1742-1793). Originary of Burgundy (France), he travelled in Europe on several occasions. He reached Moldavia as well in the year 1775, when he came to serve the Reigning Prince Grigore III Ghica (whom he had met in Russia), as a teacher of his sons and as a secretary for the French correspondence. He remained here for a year (1775-1776), and during this period he seems to have travelled to Wallachia as well. In the spring of the year 1776, Carra left Moldavia heading to Poland. A year later, in 1777, there appeared in Buillon, not in Iaşi, as it is written on the title page, Histoire de la Moldavie et la Valachie (History of Moldavia and Wallachia), a work that was to be published in the same year in Paris as well and then in its second edition in Neuchatel, in the year 1781. Our paper aims to bring into focus Carra's works together with all the controversies it triggered in the course of time in the Romanian historiography.
- Subjects
MOLDOVA; WALLACHIA; ROMANIANS; TRAVELERS; BURGUNDY wines; VOYAGES &; travels; PRINCES; SONS; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Annals of the University of Craiova. History / Analele Universit??ii din Craiova. Istorie, 2022, Vol 42, Issue 2, p21
- ISSN
1224-5704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.52846/AUCSI.2022.2.02