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unusual facts about Octave Houdas



William Marçais

In 1894 he therefore went to Paris and enrolled in the École des langues orientales, where he studied Literary Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Turkish and Persian under Hartwig Derenbourg and Octave Houdas.


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Koumbi Saleh

In the French translation of the Tarikh al-fattash published in 1913, Octave Houdas and Maurice Delafosse include a footnote in which they comment that local tradition also suggested that the first capital of Kayamagna was at Koumbi and that the town was in the Ouagadougou region, northeast of Goumbou on the road leading from Goumbou to Néma and Oualata.