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    Antoine Galland (French: [ɑ̃twan ɡalɑ̃]; 4 April 1646 – 17 February 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European...
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    added to the One Thousand and One Nights since French orientalist Antoine Galland translated and included them, after which they soon became popular...
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    magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in Antoine Galland's version of One Thousand and One Nights. It opens the mouth of a cave...
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  • Antoine Galland (1763 – 1851) was a publisher and printer during the French Revolution and First Empire. As a printer, he joined the Commission des Sciences...
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    versions, but were instead added to the collection by French translator Antoine Galland after he heard them from Syrian writer Hanna Diyab during the latter's...
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    by its French translator, Antoine Galland. John Payne quotes passages from Galland's unpublished diary recording Galland's encounter with a Maronite storyteller...
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    Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab. As one of the most...
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  • Galland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adolf Galland (1912–1996), German air general during World War II Antoine Galland (1646–1715)...
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  • film director Antoine Furetière,(1619–1688), French scholar Antoine Galland (1646–1715), French orientalist and archaeologist Antoine Ghanem (1943–2007)...
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  • They include the French translation by Antoine Galland (titled Les mille et une nuits, finished in 1717). Galland's translation was essentially based on...
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    which occupied him nearly all his life, and was completed in 1697 by Antoine Galland. It is based on the immense Arabic bibliography (the Kashf al-Zunun)...
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    Tales. They were first included in French translation of the Tales by Antoine Galland who heard them being told by a traditional Arab storyteller and only...
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    Lamp", first known in Europe through its 18th century populariser, Antoine Galland, who added the tale to his translation of One Thousand and One Nights...
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    jalouses de leur cadette) is a fairy tale collected by French orientalist Antoine Galland and published in his translation of The Arabian Nights, a compilation...
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    editions and translations of the Nights. The Galland Manuscript provided the kernel of Antoine Galland's seminal French rendering of the Nights, Les mille...
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  • Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from the Maronite storyteller Hanna Diyab. It is the...
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    Antoine Galland translated One Thousand and One Nights into French that the Western concept of ghouls was introduced into European society. Galland depicted...
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    reproduce the inscription. A slightly different method was adopted by Antoine Galland. The prints that resulted were taken to Paris by General Charles Dugua...
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  • It was not until Antoine Galland translated the Arabian Nights into French that the western idea of ghoul was introduced. Galland depicted the ghoul...
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  • used in the 1704 French translation of One Thousand and One Nights by Antoine Galland and is mostly associated with wish-granting djinns. The terms Ifrit...
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    French author Antoine Galland collected the story. According to Ulrich Marzolph, tales collected later from oral tradition derive from Galland's translation...
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  • une nuits, a French translation of The Thousand and One Nights by Antoine Galland The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Sir Richard Burton's famous...
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    reached the French royal library, where it was translated in part by Antoine Galland as De l'origine et du progrès du café (1699). Sufis in Yemen used the...
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    version of The Thousand and One Nights tales. The French translation by Antoine Galland (1646–1715) derived from an Arabic text of the Syrian recension of...
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  • is based on the classic Arabian Nights story Aladdin, translated by Antoine Galland. Aladdin was produced by Golden Films and the American Film Investment...
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    Fontarabie Nicolas Fréret Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Étienne Fourmont Antoine Galland Ernst Hoepffner Pierre Amédée Jaubert Stanislas Julien Alexandre Maurice...
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  • published her outspoken novel Memoirs of Emma Courtney. From 1704 to 1717, Antoine Galland published One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights...
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    Constantinople by the famous translator of The Thousand and One Nights, Antoine Galland (1646-1715). It was taken to France, and was part of the library of...
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    Fables) of the Latin poet Gabriele Faerno into French verse in 1699. Antoine Galland Alexander Afanasyev Brothers Grimm Charles Deulin Giambattista Basile...
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  • by Hanna Diyab, and was added to the One Thousand and One Nights by Antoine Galland, appearing in his French translation Les mille et une nuits. Aladdin...
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