Complete reference: Olivier Bouquet (2007), Les Pachas du sultan : Essai sur les agents supérieurs de l’État ottoman (1839-1909), Leuven, Peeters, Collection Turcica vol. XII, xxxiv + 587 p. 75 € paper. ISBN: 978-90-429-1892-4 ‘All the Sultan’s men...,’ to paraphrase the old nursery rhyme, might be a fitting epithet for that class of senior government officials who embodied Ottoman statesmanship in the long nineteenth century before the Empire’s demise. Olivier Bouquet has produced a remarkab...