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Xavier Du Crest, « André Joubin à Constantinople : un chargé de mission au Musée impérial ottoman (1893-1894) », Histoire de l'art, ID : 10.3406/hista.2002.2996
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André Joubin on a special mission in the Ottomon Imperial Museum (1893-1894). The Turkish journey of André Joubin (1868-1944) on a mission as a deputy heritage curator at the Ottomon Imperial Museum in Constantinople puts the Middle East journey to the test of modernity ; it is a turning point in the artistic and scientific relations between the two countries and, in a more general way, in the Eastern travel experience. From the middle of the 19th century, French artists or official representatives follow each other in Turkey and their presence tends to be permanent, for the greater renown of France. As a representative of French museology and archeology in Turkey, André Joubin acquired a great insight in the men as well as in the history and art of their country and perhaps was one of the first French Turkish scholars. Nonetheless, his mission highlights how hard it was for Europe to admit the part the Turks played in the construction of their own heritage and how disturbing it was to face a local competence.