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Travels in the Mogul Empire is the first authoritative translation into English of François Bernier’s Histoire de la dernière révolution des états du Grand Mogol, published in Paris in 1670‒71. Bernier was born at Joué in the Loire, France, and educated in medicine at the University of Montpellier. Desiring to see the world, he traveled to Syria and Palestine in 1654. He returned to the Middle East in 1656, where he lived for a year in Cairo before sailing south through the Red Sea with the intent of ...