books.google.com - In 1720, an Ottoman ambassador was sent to the court of the Child King Louis XV to observe Western civilization and report on what he saw and how it could be applied in the Ottoman Empire. Based on the accounts of this ambassador, East Encounters West studies the impact of the West on the Ottoman empire...http://books.google.com/books/about/East_Encounters_West_France_and_the_Otto.html?id=ZDljPtPJLbkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEast Encounters West : France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
