Le vent des deux mondes. Enquête sur les princes iraniens de la Gaule romaine
In 1754, Anquetil-Duperron sailed for India with the support of the Abbé Barthélémy, author of Young Anacharsis’ travel to Greece. He developed friendly relations with the Zoroastrians acquainted him with the Zend Avesta. On his return, he published a study of these texts which earned him membership...
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L’Harmattan
2006-12-01
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| Series: | Droit et Cultures |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/554 |
| Summary: | In 1754, Anquetil-Duperron sailed for India with the support of the Abbé Barthélémy, author of Young Anacharsis’ travel to Greece. He developed friendly relations with the Zoroastrians acquainted him with the Zend Avesta. On his return, he published a study of these texts which earned him membership in the French Academy.The West traveled far to learn the words of Zarathustra. Nobody had imagined that the predicationfrom the two worlds had come from Iran to Occident, much earlier, at the time of the declining Roman Empire. We take as testimonies of this fact two tombs dating back to the Vth century whose contents come from Orient, one in Rhineland and the second one in France’s Champagne region. These tombs belong to two officers who had been commanding cavalry units of Iranian origin. These Iranian princes from Gaul were not immigrants without links with the population. They were established in the country, living with their men in districts which sometimes had taken their name, spreading around them elements specific to their former Weltanschauung. Thus was slowly forming the culture of nations of Western Europe, through a mixture of diverse contributions. |
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| ISSN: | 0247-9788 2109-9421 |