• François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713) was a French orientalist. De la Croix was born in Paris, the son of the Arabic interpreter of the French court and...
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  • and inventor François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713), French orientalist Jean Louis de la Croix, French archer Pierre Frédéric de la Croix (1709–1782),...
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  • Les Mille et un jours (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    published between the years 1710 and 1712 by the French orientalist François Pétis de la Croix, probably with unacknowledged help from Alain-René Lesage. Though...
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    Turandot (Gozzi) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    story from the collection Les Mille et un jours (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix (not to be confused with One Thousand and One Nights). Gozzi's...
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    Jean-Baptiste Morin Alexis Paulin Paris Abel Pavet de Courteille Paul Pelliot François Pétis de la Croix Guillaume Postel Edgar Quinet Petrus Ramus Henri...
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    and François de La Mothe Le Vayer. From Chapelain's correspondence we know of a link with the elder Pétis de la Croix, whose son François Pétis de la Croix...
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    recently, the Zafarnama was translated into French in 1722 by François Pétis de la Croix and into English the following year. The Zafarnama of Yazdi is...
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    an Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Latin Dictionary. Sufi studies François Pétis de la Croix  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from...
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    M. Naini Seyyed Hossein Nasr Franklin Lewis Leonard Lewisohn François Pétis de la Croix Annemarie Schimmel Dariush Shayegan Abdolkarim Soroush Abdolhamid...
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    programme for Les jeunes de langues (The Youth of Languages), young linguists in the diplomatic service, like François Pétis de la Croix, who, like his father...
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  • order Noorbakshi Sufi order Nizamuddin Auliya Ömer Faruk Tekbilek François Pétis de la Croix Qadiriyya Qawwali Rumi, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Riaz Ahmed Gohar...
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    Potawatomi. Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, Louis Hennepin or François Pétis de la Croix may have explored the area. Potawatomi chief, Leopold Pokagon...
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  • the Use of Reason Jean de Beaugué – Histoire de la guerre d'Ecosse (translation by Patrick Abercromby) François Pétis de la Croix (translated and adapted)...
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  • century (satire) Cotton Mather – Bonifacius: Essays To Do Good François Pétis de la Croix – Les Mille et un jours (translation and adaptation of Hazár ú...
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    Turandot (category Opera world premieres at La Scala)
    stories in Haft Peykar features a Russian princess. In 1722, François Pétis de la Croix published his Les Mille et un jours (The Thousand and One Days)...
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  • L'Harmattan. p. 167. ISBN 2-7384-1863-5. François Pétis de La Croix (2000). Histoire du prince Calaf et de la princesse de la Chine (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan...
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  • Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace Les Mille et un jours by François Pétis de la Croix The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield Ficciones...
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  • nuits (1704–1717), first European translation of Arabian Nights François Pétis de la Croix — Les mille et un jours (The Thousand and One Days) (1710–1712)...
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  • ("History of Timur", 1425) is published in a French translation by François Pétis de la Croix (d. 1713). William Wood (ironmaster) commences the minting (in...
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    she is depicted as a proud woman who finally succumbs to love. François Pétis de la Croix's 1710 book of Asian tales and fables contains a story in which...
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  • collection Les Mille et un jours ('1001 Days') (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix, from which the story of Turandot is taken. Turandot, bezaubernde...
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    one of the clergymen who founded Yale (b. 1659) December 4 – François Pétis de la Croix, French orientalist (b. 1653) December 5 – Tokugawa Gorōta, daimyo...
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    publisher Claude Barbin published these two along with two of François Pétis de la Croix's translations of the Turkish Ferec baʿd eş-şidde (later published...
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  • ISBN 0-7734-6610-X History of Genghizcan the Great (1722). Translation of M. François Pétis de la Croix. The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her...
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  • one of the clergymen who founded Yale (b. 1659) December 4 – François Pétis de la Croix, French orientalist (b. 1653) December 5 – Tokugawa Gorōta, daimyo...
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    time his publisher Claude Barbin also asked Lesage to rework François Pétis de la Croix's translation of Turkish tales Les mille et un jours (1710–12)...
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    spent 1655–69 in the Islamic world (mostly with Aurangzeb), and François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713), a diplomat who spent 1674–1676 in Isfahan, where...
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  • autres contes merveilleux. Tome 13. pp. 257-277. Weber, Henry; and François Pétis de La Croix. Tales of the East: Comprising the Most Popular Romances of Oriental...
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    maint: location missing publisher (link) The 1723 English version of François Pétis de la Croix's translation at the Internet Archive: volumes 1 and 2...
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    Corsairs of Algiers (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    story known as the Beautiful Provençal, Jean-François Regnard, captured in 1678. Famous Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote and the...
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