Monsieur Ariel

Monsieur Ariel is a 19th-century French translator known for his French translation of the ancient Indian philosophical text of Tirukkural. He translated select couplets of the Tirukkural into French in 1848 and published it in Paris under the title Kural de Thiruvalluvar (Traduits du Tamoul). Although the first French translation of the Kural text was made by an unknown author in 1767, which Ariel had mentioned in his work, it was Ariel's translation that brought the ancient work to the French world.

Ariel called the Kural text

He also famously said of the Tirukkural thus: "Ce livre sans nom, par un autre sans nom" ("The book without a name by an author without a name.")

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