Dictionnaire amoureux des mille et une nuits (French Edition), Paperback Book, By: Chebel, Malek

In his own way, Schéhérazade may have invented the romance novel, the plot with twists and turns, the happy outcomes. Holding her husband in suspense. she managed to save her head while surprising her reader from day to day, from page to page, from story to story. The king of a huge empire discovers that his lonely wife is cheating on him with his slaves. Mad with jealousy, he pulls his sword from its scabbard and finishes them all. The king then decides that in the future, he would spend only one night with young virgins, before slitting their necks. Schahrazade becomes the king's wife. As a magician of words, she will seek to save her head by linking stories each more fascinating than the next. In her own way, she invented the plot with twists and turns, the soap opera of desire. Born in Baghdad around the year 1000, inspired by the legends of Persia and India, then enriched by that of Cairo and Damascus, the Thousand and One Nights are a mirror of humanity in all its facets. This book, rediscovered in the 18th century by the Frenchman Antoine Galland, is one of the most read in the world.