CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Batisz, Marton |
|---|---|
| Title | Andre Joseph Lafitte-Clave and the French Military Mission of 1784 to the Ottoman Empire |
| Summary | The present work examines the French military mission of 1784 to the Ottoman Empire. The main focus of the thesis is André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé, a military engineer and prominent member of said mission. He spent four years in the Empire teaching fortification to a select number of students and traveled the Empire extensively to evaluate its defensive capabilities and improve upon them. Throughout his stay, he recorded his experiences in multiple pieces of writing. These documents serve as the primary source for my inquiry. This corpus is a rich source of depictions of the social life of foreigners in 18th-century Istanbul and also provides fascinating details about how knowledge sharing happened. The study aims at uncovering his role in the diffusion of Western military knowledge in the Ottoman Empire and understanding his personal experience throughout his stay. |
| Supervisor | Börekçi, Günhan |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/batisz_marton.pdf |
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