Shéhérazade

Also known as Shahrazad, Shahrzad

personnage des Mille-et-une Nuits

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Scheherazade is the legendary narrator of *One Thousand and One Nights*, a collection of folktales from the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa compiled in Arabic between the 8th and 14th centuries. She is the king's wife who saves herself and other women from execution by telling him an unbroken chain of interconnected stories over 1,001 nights.

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Character.name: Scheherazade
Character.series: One Thousand and One Nights
Character.image: Scheherazade.tif
Character.caption: Scheherazade, 19th century painting by Sophie Anderson
Character.portrayer: Mili Avital, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Claude Jade, Anna Karina, María Montez, Cyrine Abdelnour, Sulaf Fawakherji, Annette Haven, Meredith Stepien, Damini Kanwal Shetty
Character.occupation: Queen consort
Character.spouse: Shahryar
Character.gender: Female
Character.children: 3 sons and possibly 1 daughter
Character.lbl21: Other names
Character.data21: Shahrazad, Shahrzad

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Wikidata facts

Gender: female
Spouse: Shahryar
Sibling: Dunyazad
Performer: Mili Avital
Image: Scheherazade.tif

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Commons category: Scheherazade
described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia
present in work: One Thousand and One Nights
name in native language: شهرزاد

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Article · Français

Shérazade ou plus traditionnellement Shéhérazade (arabe : شهرزاد / Šahrazād, adaptation arabe du prénom persan Čihrzād qui signifie « née d'une lignée (pure), bien née », parfois réinterprété comme dérivant de Šahr ville, d'où l'étymologie populaire « née de la ville », « enfant du pays ») est un personnage de fiction et conteuse du livre des Mille et Une Nuits. Le noyau de ces histoires est formé par un ancien livre persan nommé Hezār-afsāna (Les Mille contes).

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