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« Monday, August 24 (1711). Free from my work of
translating the Qur’an, of compiling Historical and
Grammatical Commentaries and of writing Prefaces, I
looked over a few of the Arabian Stories told me by the
Maronite Hannah and which I had summarily written
down, to see which ones I ought to concentrate upon in
order to prepare the 11th volume of Mille et une

nuit.»

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«Tuesday, October 24 (1712). I returned to writing
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the 12 volume of Mille et une nuit, with the story of
the two sisters jealous of their younger sister..»

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« Monday, November 14 (1712). I comopleted the
12 tome of the Mille et une Nuit ».
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