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Libre aux anglophones de ne pas traduire le mot "sale". Cette décision n'entraine aucune obligation de ne pas traduire le mot dans les autres langues, que ce soit clair ! Le travail d'un traducteur est de mettre la connaissance le plus à portée du lecteur. Cette démarche implique une traduction fidèle. Aussi, si un mot peut être traduit, il doit l'être, c'est le travail du traducteur ! Autrement, il y aura des pertes dans le message au niveau de la compréhension ou des lourdeurs comme ici en citant le nom étranger et sa signification, et ce n'est pas le but recherché.

English term (edited): "sale*

As the Italian word has been retained in the EN, I think you should do exactly the same thing in FR — or else leave it out altogether, since you have the explanation of what it means (roughly) with 'galleries' — I believe it means pretty much the same as a 'salle de musée".

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Note added at 12 minutes (2016-03-04 17:22:10 GMT)
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By the way, this was clearly not written by a native speaker of EN, you might do better to go back and find the Italian source text, to try and avoid a case of 'Chinese whispers'

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Note added at 2 heures (2016-03-04 19:42:52 GMT)
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For info:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/translate/italian-english/...

Italian
sala (plural sale)

sala
1 (vasto locale)
hall, room
cinema a cinque -e > five-screen cinema
recitare a sala piena > to play to a full house
c'è un medico in sala? > is there a doctor in the house?
...



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Note added at 2 heures (2016-03-04 19:48:07 GMT)
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It's important not to get misled by the faux ami of 'gallery' / 'galerie' here — although in some senses, the FR and EN terms do equate (when describing the form of the place, as in the « galerie des glaces » at Versailles cited by Philippe. But in more general terms, 'gallery' just tends to mean 'a specific room within a museum etc.', and in this sense it is more usually 'salle'; one might argue that the word 'gallery' was poorly chosen in the EN source text, which is clearly a none-to-brilliant translation from an Italian original. I doubt many of these rooms necessarily have the specific form of a 'gallery' (usually long and narrow).

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Note added at 17 heures (2016-03-05 10:47:26 GMT)
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The original Italian translator cleary though it was of interest to keep the IT term and then use 'or' to introduce an explanation of its meaning. We very often seen the same kind of format used in FR texts.

So to me, in a FR tranbslation, you have the option to either simply omit the IT word of being of no interest, in which case no translation of 'or' is needed either, and it simply becomes a single term. Or to do the same as in the source text, i.e. cite the foreign word and then explain it.

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Otherwise, if you wish to avoid the possible ambiguity in a FR reader's mind highlighted by Sandra, then as I ahve stated already in discussion, the best thing is to simply leave out any mention of the Italian term, and simply call them 'salles'; 'galleries' / galeries' should be left out of the issue here.