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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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