RECHERCHES HISTORIQUES SUR LES MAURES ET HISTOIRE DE L'EMPIRE DE MAROC.

Chénier, Louis de (1722-1796)

Numéro d'objet:	24
Date:	1787
Genre:	Livre
Lieu:	Paris
Sujet:	Histoire

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1787. Chenier, Louis-Sauveur de, Consul Général au Maroc. – Recherches historiques sur les Maures et histoire de l'empire du Maroc. Paris : 3 vol., 8vo, pp. 424, 476, 564.

CHENIER (Louis-Sauveur de). Recherches historiques sur les Maures et histoire de l'empire de Maroc. Paris; Bailly, Royer 1787; 3 vol. in-8 veau marbré, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de filets, fleurons et roulettes dorés, pièces rouge; contenant 3 cartes dépliantes avec contour colorié.
Édition originale. (Playfair 435)

An English translation, 1788, 2 vol., pp. vi. 377 + 427 : « The Present State of the Empire of Morocco, its animals, products, cities, coins, weights and measures ; with the language, religion, laws, manners, customs, and character of the Moors ; the history of the Dynasties since Edris ; the naval force and commerce of Morocco ; and the character, conduct, and views, political and commercial, of the reigning Emperor, translated [and abridged most of the historical portion, a third of the work being omitted] from the French. »
Includes a good description of the Empire of Morocco; with maps.
The author of this work, according to Keatinge (1773), « gave great offence to Sultan Homed Abn Abdallah, » by whom on one occasion he was ordered to leave his presence. Jackson, permeated with the weakness of authors on Morocco for disparaging their rivals, speaks slightingly of M. de Chenier's hauteur to the Moors and the difficulty he had in obtaining information owing to his dislike to mingle among the natives. This hauteur was, however, not without its uses, for up to the year 1767 – when M. de Chenier refused to honour the order – no Christian was permitted to ride into Saffee on horseback, of Jew enter it except barefooted (as in Fez and other cities to this day), owing to the number of tombs or asylums of saints within the walls. Even The Portuguese, when masters of the place, did not abandon this humilitating custom till the year 1641. Chenier was afterwards Consul-General in Constantinople, where were born his two sons – André-Marie, the poet and politician, who was guillotined on the 25th of July 1794 ; and Marie-Joseph, the poet and dramatist who, surviving the Reign of Terror, died in 1811.



Contenus dans le premier Volume. DISCOURS préliminaire. 1 Dynasties qui ont régné dans l'Empire de Maroc, depuis le huitième siècle jusqu'à ce jour. 58 LIVRE PREMIER. Ancienne Mauritanie. 61 CHAP. I. Recherches sur la Mauritanie, dans les siècles de l'Histoire
Contenus dans le second Volume. CHAP. II. Souveraineté des Rois des Maroc sur les Mahométans d'Espagne. 1 CHAP. IV. Réunion des Domaines d'Espagne en une seule Monarchie, sous Ferdinand & Isabelle. Conquête du Royaume de Grenade sur les Mahométans. 288 CHAP. V


Fut consul et chargé d'affaires de France au Maroc de 1767 à 1782. Fournit la meilleure description du Maroc à la fin du XVIII°.
Voir la correspondance du consul Louis Chénier par GRILLION (1970)

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