''Voyage to the Orient'' (french: Voyage en Orient) is one of the works of French writer and poet

Gérard de Nerval Gérard de Nerval (; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855) was the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection ''Les Fil ...

, published during 1851, resulting from his voyage of 1842 to

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and

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. In addition to a travel account it retells Oriental tales, like

Solomon Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah (Hebrew language, Hebrew: , Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yahweh, Yah"), ...

and the

Queen of Sheba The Queen of Sheba ( he, מַלְכַּת שְׁבָא‎, Malkaṯ Šəḇāʾ; ar, ملكة سبأ, Malikat Sabaʾ; gez, ንግሥተ ሳባ, Nəgśətä Saba) is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she bring ...

, in terms of the artist and the act of creation. The chapters first appeared in the periodical ''

Revue des Deux Mondes The ''Revue des deux Mondes'' (, ''Review of the Two Worlds'') is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829. According to its website, "it is today the place for debates a ...

'' in 1846 and 1847, where the series was called ''Scènes de la Vie Orientale''.''The Women of Cairo Volume One''
Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1930. Translation of ''Voyage en Orient''. See "Introduction" by Conrad Elphinstone. Later, when the chapters appeared together in book form in 1851, it was retitled ''Voyage en Orient'', and an account of de Nerval's travels through Europe before leaving for the Orient was added. For a later edition, de Nerval added a series of appendices, the majority of the material taken directly from Lane's '' Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians''. In 1930, the book was translated as ''The Women Of Cairo'' by Conrad Elphinstone in two volumes, it included only the material originally published in 1846–47. More recent translations are incomplete.

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''The Women of Cairo Volume One''

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