The immediate success the tales enjoyed was partly due to the vogue for fairy stories - in French, contes de fees - which had been started in France in the 1690s by Galland's friend Charles Perrault. Galland adapted his translation to the taste of the times. It was included in his volumes IX and X, published in 1710. For example, Galland's diary tells that his translation of ' Aladdin' was made in the winter of 1709–10. Hanna recounted 14 stories to Galland from memory and Galland chose to include seven of them in his books. Galland's diary (March 25, 1709) records that he met Hanna through Paul Lucas, a French traveler who had used him as an interpreter brought him to Paris. Galland translated the first part of his work solely from the Syrian manuscript, but in 1709 he was introduced to a Syrian Christian - a Maronite from Aleppo whom he called Youhenna (“Hanna”) Diab. The twelfth and final volume was published posthumously in 1717. The first two volumes of this work, under the title Les mille et une nuit, appeared in 1704. Its success encouraged him to embark on a translation of a 14th-century Syrian manuscript of tales from The Thousand and One Nights. Galland had come across a manuscript of ' The Tale of Sindbad the Sailor' in Constantinople during the 1690s and in 1701 he published his French translation of it. Immensely popular at the time of initial publication, and enormously influential later, subsequent volumes were introduced using Galland's name although the stories were written by unknown persons at the behest of a publisher wanting to capitalize on their popularity. It included stories that are not found in the original Arabic manuscripts - the so-called 'orphan tales' - such as the famous ' Aladdin' and ' Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', which first appeared in print in Galland's form. The French translation by Antoine Galland (1646–1715) derived from an Arabic text of the Syrian recension of the medieval work as well as other sources. Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français ('The Thousand and One Nights, Arab stories translated into French'), published in 12 volumes between 17, was the first European version of The Thousand and One Nights tales. Note other stories in the smaller panels (e.g., ' The Ebony Horse' and ' The Fisherman and the Jinn'). 2, by Pierre Husson, The Hague, 1714, by Dutch artist David Coster (1686-1752): Shahrazad tells her story to Shahryār, while her sister Dunyazad listens. Illustration from Galland's Les Mille et Une Nuit, Contes Arabes, Vol.

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