French Orientalism drew its practitioners from a broad European intellectual and artistic culture

Evidence

His first contact with Orientalism came through Renan, whose lectures he heard as a young man; he was also a student of Sylvain Lévi, and came to include among his friends such figures as Paul Claudel, Gabriel Bounoure, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, and Charles de Foucauld. Later he was able to absorb work done in such relatively recent fields as urban sociology, structural linguistics, psychoanalysis, contemporary anthropology, and the New History. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 686

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts the intellectual formation of French versus British Orientalists, embodied in Massignon’s cosmopolite background versus Gibb’s austerity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 686
• XREF: connects to: Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise; Modern Orientalism derives from secularizing elements in eighteenth-century European thought
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise; Modern Orientalism derives from secularizing elements in eighteenth-century European thought