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ntoine Galland was a French
scholar who knew Arabic and
other ancient and modern
languages. He returned to Paris
after having spent many years in
the Middle East. People in
Paris was already very fond of Perrault’s fairy
tales, and Galland, who knew the Arabian tales
from The Thousand and One Nights, had a 14 th
century manuscript of that great collection sent
to him from Syria. He translated it, and the first
volume was published in 1704, when I happily
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