Les pays arabo-musulmans de l’Empire ottoman vus par un écrivain voyageur contemporain de Rousseau Les Mémoires de François de Tott (1733-1793)

François baron de Tott was well known in Europe and he was also considered as one of the most important western modernizers of Ottoman Empire. His memoirs contain the history of his oriental missions. This work had a great success because it was made by an expert of oriental affairs, and because of his participation to the philosophical debate on oriental despotism.