Description

La Perse d'aujourd’hui is an account of trips made by the author in parts of Persia (present-day Iran) and Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) in the second half of 1906 and the first half of 1907. The places visited included territories that as a consequence of later territorial changes are now in Azerbaijan and eastern Turkey. Mesopotamia was at this time part of the Ottoman Empire. The author, Léon Eugène Aubin Coullard Descos (1863‒1931), was a French diplomat and writer who served as the French minister in Tehran in ...