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The Lost Children (fairy tale) M. Margot the fairy; Les mille et une nuits; N. The Nettle Spinner; P. Persinette; La petite Toute-Belle; ... Category: French fairy tales.
French fairy tales are particularly known by their literary rather than their folk, oral variants. Perrault derived almost all his tales from folk sources, but rewrote them for the upper-class audience, removing rustic elements. The précieuses rewrote them even more extensively for their own interests. [1]
Like her better known tale Beauty and the Beast, it is among the first fairy tales deliberately written for children. [1] It draws on traditional fairy tale motifs from the Aarne–Thompson tale type 480, the kind and the unkind girls; as is common in those tales, the abused daughter finds herself in a new place, where, after a test, a kindly ...
Les Princes et la Princesse de Marinca (English: The Princes and the Princess of Marinca) is a French-Canadian fairy tale from Gaspésie published by Canadian folklorist Carmen Roy. [1] It is related to the motif of the calumniated wife and classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children".
The Lost Children is a French fairy tale collected by Antoinette Bon in Revue des traditions populaires. [1]It is Aarne-Thompson type 327A. [2] Another tale of this type is Hansel and Gretel; The Lost Children combines with that type several motifs typical of Hop o' My Thumb, which is typical of French variants.
"Riquet with the Tuft" (French: Riquet à la houppe), also known as "Ricky of the Tuft", is a French literary fairy tale first published by Catherine Bernard in 1696 in Ines de Cordoue. [1] The more famous version is that of Charles Perrault in his Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697.
The motif of talented servants is classified as Aarne–Thompson–Uther ATU 513, "How Six Made Their Way Into The World" [3] and is commonly found in folk and fairy tales, such as How Six Made Their Way in the World, The Six Servants, Long, Broad and Sharpsight, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's ...
Tales of the Night (French: Les Contes de la nuit) is a 1992 [4] French silhouette animation television special [4] written and directed by Michel Ocelot. It aired on Canal+ in France, ZDF in Germany and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. [5] It is a trilogy of three further fairy tales in much the same format as Ciné si.