'''Pacifique de Provins''' (1588 in Provins – 1648) was a French Capuchin Father of the 17th century. He established a French mission in Isfahan in 1627 with the agreement of Cardinal de Richelieu and Père Joseph, and the benevolence of Shah Abbas I of Persia.<ref>McCabe, p.141</ref> Pacifique de Provins relied on the help of an Armenian named Khajah Muchaq to obtain an agreement from the Shah.<ref>''The politics of trade in Safavid Iran: silk for silver, 1600-1730'' Rudolph P. Matthee p.87 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5U0yECMV--wC&pg=PA87]</ref> Results were minimum however in increasing relations and trade, and English and Dutch influence remained paramount.<ref name="Cambridge">''The Cambridge history of Iran'' William Bayne Fisher, Peter Jackson, Laurence Lockhart p.465 [https://books.google.com/books?id=LZ0-2BIR8BQC&pg=PA465]</ref> Progress was also hampered by the long-standing Franco-Ottoman alliance, the Ottoman Empire being a regular enemy of Persia.<ref name="Cambridge"/>
A new mission was sent in 1665 under de Lalin (or Lalain), Mariage and La Boullaye le Gouz.<ref name="Cambridge"/> A treaty was signed after many deceptions and tribulations but Lalin died at Bandar Abbas in 1667. ==Works== * Pacifique de Provins, ''Relation du Voyage de Perse'' (Paris: Nicolas et lean de la Coste, 1631)
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==References== * McAbe, Ina Baghdiantz 2008 ''Orientalism in early Modern France'' Berg {{ISBN|978-1-84520-374-0}}
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