Acknowledgements | |
Map: Persia and environs circa 1800 | |
Illustrations | |
Foreword | |
Preface | |
The Lure of the Orient | p. 1 |
The Egyptian Campaign | p. 10 |
The Beginnings of Franco-Persian Relations | p. 15 |
Bonaparte in Egypt | p. 30 |
The Syrian Campaign | p. 37 |
Malcolm's Embassy | p. 40 |
Attempts at Franco-Persian Rapprochement | p. 47 |
Two Unofficial Ambassadors | p. 55 |
The Romieu Mission | p. 65 |
The Jaubert Mission | p. 76 |
The Finkenstein Treaty | p. 90 |
The Gardane Mission | p. 104 |
Sebastiani's Emissary | p. 107 |
First Impressions | p. 117 |
The Rivalry Between France and Britain | p. 127 |
Malcolm's Second Mission | p. 129 |
Gardane's Last Chance | p. 134 |
A Persian Ambassador in Paris | p. 140 |
The Tsar's Intransigence | p. 147 |
The Decline of French Influence | p. 155 |
The Futility of French Mediation | p. 162 |
Gardane's Departure | p. 170 |
The Occupations of the British Ambassador | p. 180 |
The Last Attempts to Achieve the Unachievable | p. 191 |
Napoleon as seen by the Persians | p. 198 |
Text of the Finkenstein Treaty | p. 205 |
Notes | p. 209 |
Bibliography | p. 221 |
Index | p. 224 |
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