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> By his own account he wrote them down (in French) based on narration from a Syrian Maronite storyteller who visited him in Paris That sounds a lot like the
by defen 6y ago
> By his own account he wrote them down (in French) based on narration from a Syrian Maronite storyteller who visited him in Paris
That sounds a lot like the origin story of Don Quixote... (within the text, it was allegedly told to Cervantes by Cide Hamete Benengeli)
- goto11 6y agoThe storyteller did exist though. He even wrote a memoir! But he didn't write down his own stories. He narrated them for Galland, presumably in French, and Galland wrote them down... a few days later... from memory.