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L'École des Jeunes de Langue : at the origin of dynasties of dragomans

In the Échelles of Levant, because of the language barrier, the dragomans, or interpreters, were an indispensable cog in the wheel in the relationships between the French who had moved there and the Ottoman authorities.

Jean-Pierre Farganel, agrégé of history, doctor of history, associate researcher at UMR TELEMME, Aix-Marseille I.

École des langues orientales vivantes