Critical edition of Antoine Galland's *Journal 1708-1715 *, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. f. fr. 15277-15280

安托万·加朗(1646-1715)最出名的是他是第一个以印刷形式出版《一千零一夜》的人，他的法语版本至今仍是原文，目前至少有一个英文译本是从他的法语版本中获得的。他是一个著名的阿拉伯人在他的时代，最终获得了阿拉伯人的皇家主席。然而，他不仅仅是一个阿拉伯人，可能是最好的描述为古典人文学家与钱币学的特殊兴趣，并因此是皇家学院的铭文和奖章，目前的Aadémie des铭文和美丽的法兰西学院-Lettres成员。在三次访问近东地区期间，他为皇家图书馆收集手稿和硬币，并在卡昂为省政府行政长官担任了几年的图书管理员，之后，他最终返回巴黎，在那里度过了他生命的最后十年。他是一个根深蒂固的日记作家，有足够的证据表明，在他成年后，他可能至少有一篇日记在忙碌。这一惊人的产出只剩下他在中东的一次航行(1672-1633年)和他生命中最后八年零两个月的不到两年。第一本已经全部出版，但只有一小部分第二本(到目前为止更长)，在导言和注释方面很少，已经看到了曙光。本项目的目的是向学术受众提供完整日记的字面(或实际可行的字面)印刷本，以及实质性的介绍和注释。该文本的兴趣在于它的独特呈现了一个文人在路易十四统治的最后几年的日常活动。它一方面描绘了一个人的肖像，另一方面描绘了当时智力生活的详细图景。在第一种情况下，观测中遗漏的东西几乎和记录下来的一样有趣。加兰对他周围的政治和社会事件不太关心。他知道结束了西班牙王位继承战争的乌得勒支条约，但似乎没有注意到几乎在他的住所外发生的公开宣布和庆祝活动。法国潜在王位继承人的死亡似乎对他视而不见，几乎没有关于战争(包括布伦海姆)最后战斗的消息，这些消息由Dangeau和Saint-Simon等人详细记录。1709年灾难性的冬天过后，由于面包短缺而引发的民众骚乱没有引起注意。事实上，正是加朗感兴趣的东西与凡尔赛贵族和巴黎民众的关注点之间的对比，形成了日记所提供的兴趣领域之一。积极的一面是，我们看到加朗在巴黎四面八方(步行，因为他负担不起交通费用)，拜访更富有的熟人，他们给他提供午餐和金钱，以换取他提供的钱币服务，记录扬森主义争议中的最新出版物，尤其是他认真参加的每周两次的铭文和梅代尔学会会议，为不同政府部门和部委每年所需的银币年度设计贡献学术论文和钱币建议(似乎从未被他的同事接受)。他记下了他读的书和他买的书，其中有一节直接与一千零一夜有关：上一卷中的大多数故事都是从一个叙利亚人给他讲的故事日记中总结而来的，这让我们看到有多少故事与其说是翻译的，不如说是原创作品。

Antoine Galland (1646-1715) is best known for being the first person to publish in any printed form the Arabian Nights stories, his French version being even now the original from which at least one current English translation is made. He was a noted Arabist in his time, eventually obtaining the royal chair of Arabic.He was, however, much more than an Arabist and is probably best described as a classical humanist with a particular interest in numismatics, and as such was a member of the royal academy of inscriptions and medals, the present Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France. After three visits to the Near East during which he collected manuscripts and coins for the royal library and a few years in Caen working as the librarian for the provincial government administrator, he eventually returned to Paris where he spent the last ten years of his life. He was an inveterate diarist and there is enough evidence to suggest that he probably had at least one diary on the go throughout his adult life. All that remains of this prodigious output is less than two years of one of his voyages in the Middle east (1672-3) and the last eight years and two months of his life. The first has been published in its entirety, but only a small percentage of the second text (which is by far the longer), with very little in the way of introduction and annotation, has seen the light of day. The present project aims to present an academic audience with a literal (or as literal as is practically feasible) printed transcription of the complete diary, together with substantive introduction and annotation. The interest of the text lies in its unique presentation of the daily activities of a man of letters during the final years of the reign of Louis XIV . It paints, on the one hand, a portrait of an individual and on the other, a detailed picture of intellectual life at the time. In the first case, what is missing from the observations is almost as interesting as what is recorded. Galland is little concerned with the political and social events surrounding him. He is aware of the treaty of Utrecht that brought an end to the war of the Spanish Succession, but appears oblivious to the public announcements and celebrations that took place almost outside his lodgings. The deaths of France's potential heirs to the throne seem to have passed him by and there is almost nothing of the news of the final battles of the war (including Blenheim) that are recorded in some detail by such as Dangeau and Saint-Simon. Popular unrest caused by the shortage of bread in the aftermath of the disastrous winter of 1709 passes unnoticed. Indeed, it is precisely the contrast between what interested Galland and the preoccupations of the aristocracy of Versailles and the populace of Paris which forms one of the areas of interest provided by the diary. On the positive side, we see Galland crossing Paris in all directions (on foot, as he could not afford transport) to vist richer acquaintances who gave him lunch and, it appears, money in return for numismatic services rendered, recording the most recent publications in the Jansenist controversy and especially, giving an account of the twice-weekly meetings of the Académie des Inscriptions et des Médailles that he attended assiduously, contributing both learned papers and numismatic proposals (never, it seems, accepted by his colleagues) for the annual designs of the silver tokens required annually by different government departmenmts and ministries. He notes the books he reads and the books he buys and there is one section which concerns directly the Arabian Nights: most of the stories in the last volume were written up from summaries consigned to the diary of tales told him by a Syrian, which allow us to see how much some of the stories are not so much translations as original compositions.