Antoine, a celebrated orientalist and numismatist, was born in 1646, at Rollat, near Montdidier in Picardy. His father died when he was a mere child; but his mother contrived to place him in the college of Noyon, where he was carefully educated. After leaving this establishment he had to contend with many difficulties and hardships, arising from the poverty of his family; but he manfully continued to prosecute his oriental studies, till in 1670 he was attached to the French embassy at Constantinople. His special duty was to procure from the Greek churches formal attestations of the articles of their faith, which then formed the subject of a grand controversy between Arnauld and Claude. He also accompanied the French ambassador to Jerusalem, and availed himself of the opportunity to copy a great number of inscriptions, and even to remove them, as often as he found it practicable to do so. Of these, Montfaucon has published some fragments in his *Paleographia Graeca*. From Syria Galland returned directly to France, whence he immediately set out again for the Levant with the intention of collecting medals. In 1679 he undertook a third voyage, being charged by the India Company to collect everything calculated to enrich the cabinet of Colbert; but this commission having ceased in consequence of changes which took place in the company, Colbert, and, after his death, Louvois, instructed Galland to continue his researches, and caused the title of "antiquary to the king" to be conferred on him. On his return to Paris, Thevenot, keeper of the king's library, and D'Herbelot, the celebrated oriental scholar, availed themselves of his labours. After their death he attached himself to Bignon, and finally to Foucault, intendant of Lower Normandy, who received Galland into his house, where, in the midst of a fine library, and a numerous collection of medals, he applied himself to the composition of different works, in which he turned to account his knowledge of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages, with which he had rendered himself familiar during his residence in the east. In 1701 he was admitted into the Academy of Inscriptions, although he resided at Caen. In 1706 he returned to take up his habitation in Paris; and three years afterwards he obtained the chair of Arabic in the Royal College of France. This learned man terminated his laborious, useful, and irreproachable life on the 17th of February 1715, at the age of sixty-nine.

The following is a list of his printed works:

1. Trois Lettres touchant la critique de M. Guillet sur le Voyage de Grèce de Spen, imprimé en la reply de Spon, Lyons, 1679, in 12mo; 2. Paroles remarquables, bons mots, et maximes des Orientaux, traduits de leurs ouvrages Arabes, Persans, et Turcs, avec des remarques, Paris, 1694, in 12mo; 3. Lettres touchant l'Histoire des quatre Gordiens, prouvée par les Médailles, Paris, 1696, in 12mo; 4. Lettre touchant quatre médailles antiques, publiées par le P. Cha-millard, Caen, 1697, in 12mo; 5. Lettre touchant la nouvelle explication d'une médaille d'or du cabinet du Roi, Caen, 1698, in 12mo; 6. Lettre sur le même sujet, imprimé en le Journal des Savants, 15th August 1705; 7. Observations sur quelques médailles de Téteius le père, et d'autres tirées du cabinet de M. Ballo-ssaux, Caen, 1701, in 8vo; 8. De l'origine et du progrès du Café, traduit d'un Arab manuscript in the library of the king, Caen, 1699, in 12mo; 9. Mille et une Nouvelles contes Arabes, traduits en français, Paris, in 12 vols, 12mo; 10. Relation de la Mort du Sultan Osman et du couronnement du Sultan Mustapha, translated from the Turkish, Paris, 1678, in 12mo; 11. Several articles in the Journal de Trévoux; 12. Letters written from Smyrna and Constantinople; 13. Contributions to the Menagiana, as well as to the Bibliothèque Orientale of D'Herbelot, who died before the printing of the work was completed; 14. Ten dissertations and memoirs for the collection of the Academy of which he was a member. Since the death of Galland there have been published of his:

1. Contes et Fables Indiennes de Pidpai et de Lekmann, Paris, 1724, in 12mo; 2. Dissertation sur une médaille Grecque de l'Empereur Diadumenien, frappée à Ephèse, 1739; 3. Relation de l'esclavage d'un Marchand Français de la ville de Cassis à Tunis, 1809. The manuscripts left by Galland were, 1. Histoire des Princes de la lignée de Tamerlan, depuis le Sultan Abou-Said-Bahadur, jusqu'au Sultan Abou-Said-Kourkman; 2. Histoire Othomane, traduite du Turc de Naïma Effendi; 3. Vocabularium Turkico-Latinum; 4. A translation of the History of Djenguzy-Khan, extracted from the Persian History of Mirkhoud; 5. Catalogue d'écrivains Arabes, Persans, et Turcs; 6. Journal de mon séjour à Constantinople pendant l'année 1672 et 1673; 7. Dictionnaire Numismatique; 8. Relation de ses Voyages; 9. Traduction de l'Alcoran; 10. Necrologie de la mort des Savants pour chaque jour de l'année de 1500 à 1701; 11. Relation d'un Voyage fait à Constantinople en 1679 et 1680; 12. État présent des Îles de Samos, de Nicaïre, de Patmos, et du Mont Athos; 13. Description de la Ville de Constantinople en 1671 et 1672; 14. Relation des Événements qui se sont passés à Constantinople en 1671 et 1672.