Elemens de la langue Turque.

First and only edition of this Turkish grammar printed in the grounds of the French embassy at Pera, where a printing press was established in 1787 by Count Choiseul-Gouffier. Little is known about the activity of the press but several titles are known to have been printed there, these were mostly military or scientific in nature and the Arabic types used were supplied from Basel.

The oriental scholar Viguier (1745-1821) was apostolic prefect at Constantinople from 1783 to 1802 and was the first to distinguish between guttural and palatal vowels in the Turkish language.