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The Chardin Baronetcy, of the Inner Temple in London, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 28 May 1720 for John Chardin, son of the noted French-born jeweller and traveller Sir John Chardin

Jean Chardin

Jean Chardin , born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.-Life and work:Chardin was born in...

. He never married and the title became extinct on his death in 1755.

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