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Antoine Galland

1646 - 1715

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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 translator of One Thousand and One Nights, which he called Les mille et une nuits. His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717 and exerted a significant influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world. Jorge Luis Borges has suggested that Romanticism began when his translation was first read. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Galland is the 747th most popular writer (up from 770th in 2019), the 880th most popular biography from France (up from 914th in 2019) and the 117th most popular French Writer.

Antoine Galland was a French traveler and writer who is most famous for his translation of "One Thousand and One Nights" into French.

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Among writers, Antoine Galland ranks 747 out of 7,302. Before him are John le Carré, Sinclair Lewis, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Eduardo Galeano, Edmond Rostand, and Jean Froissart. After him are Elisabeth of Wied, Claudian, Edgar Wallace, Christa Wolf, Berossus, and Edmond de Goncourt.

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Among people born in 1646, Antoine Galland ranks 6. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian V of Denmark, Ismail Ibn Sharif, John Flamsteed, and Elena Cornaro Piscopia. After him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Godfrey Kneller, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, and Charles Plumier. Among people deceased in 1715, Antoine Galland ranks 7. Before him are Louis XIV of France, Nicolas Malebranche, François Fénelon, Gülnuş Sultan, Dom Pérignon, and William Dampier. After him are Marie Mancini, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Pu Songling, Thomas Savery, Mirwais Hotak, and François Girardon.

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Among people born in France, Antoine Galland ranks 880 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Hermite (1822), Renée of France (1510), Robert of Molesme (1024), Edmond Rostand (1868), Jean Froissart (1337), and Adelaide of Maurienne (1092). After him are Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804), Claude Chappe (1763), Robert-François Damiens (1715), Louis the Blind (880), and Ferdinand Cheval (1836).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antoine Galland ranks 117. Before him are Eugène Sue (1804), Pierre Loti (1850), Marie de France (1101), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), Edmond Rostand (1868), and Jean Froissart (1337). After him are Edmond de Goncourt (1822), Charles Maurras (1868), Pierre Boulle (1912), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Jean Anouilh (1910), and Max Jacob (1876).

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