In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, the “exoticism” of the Ottoman Empire was used as a mirror to project Europeans’ own shortcomings and insecurities. In France, one spoke of “Turqueries,” such as in Moliere’s play “The Bourgeois Gentilhomme.”
欧洲的17和18世纪，奥斯曼帝国的“异国情调”被当作反映欧洲自身缺点和不安全感的一面镜子。法国人经常谈起“土耳其风潮”，比方说莫里哀的剧作“贵人迷”。