Eugene Pujadies: Chrétiens et Turcs: Scènes et souvenirs de la vie politique, militaire et religieuse en Orient.Paris 1859 First edition, large in 8vo,contemporary leather over boards, complete 556p.,tet clean and bright,some light spotting in few pages, light marginal water stain in down part of the first ten pages, overall in very good condition. Eugène Poujade was a French Consul-General in the Ottoman Levant. The book's primary focus is the relationship between the ruling Turks and the Christian subjects, the Rayahs. Poujade analyzes whether the Tanzimat reforms actually improved the lives of Christians or if they were merely paper reforms. A very deep analysis of the relations among Greeks and Turks and their religious and ethnic separations in the multinational Ottoman society of mid 19th century. He explores also the Holy Places dispute in Jerusalem that sparked the war, explaining the French role as Protectors of the Latins versus the Russian role as Protectors of the Orthodox. According Pujadies who lived in the Levant for many years the coexistence of these populations in the future was very unlucky.A very rare account