| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Galland had been sent by Louis XIV???s finance minister, Colbert, to a school of Oriental languages established by the French in Turkey, the precursor of France???s famous ??cole des Langues Orientales.The primary source of Galland???s Nights was a set of fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Syrian manuscripts brought to him by a friend from Aleppo for his personal library.
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