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Pages in category "French fairy tales" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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]
Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortuné is a French literary fairy tale, written by Madame d'Aulnoy. [1]It is a story about a female wartime cross-dressers.In the story, a king forms an army for his war against an emperor.
The story of beauty & the beast; the complete fairy story translated from the French by Ernest Dowson on Internet Archive. Ernest Dowson's translation of de Villeneuve's original fairy-tale. "Beauty and the Beast", the revised and abridged version by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, at the website of the University of Pittsburgh.
Charles Perrault was born in Paris on 12 January 1628, [3] [4] to a wealthy bourgeois family and was the seventh child of Pierre Perrault (father) and Paquette Le Clerc. He attended very good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and elder brother Jean.
Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1650/1651 – 14 January 1705), [1] also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was a French author known for her literary fairy tales. Her 1697 collection Les Contes des Fées (Fairy Tales) coined the literary genre's name and included the first story to feature "Prince Charmant" or Prince Charming.
Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book. [1] It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite. [2] In his source, as in Mother Hulda, the kind girl was the stepdaughter, not the ...
Title page of the 1695 manuscript of Charles Perrault's Contes de ma mère l'Oye (The Morgan Library & Museum, New York) [1]. Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités or Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Stories or Tales from Past Times, with Morals or Mother Goose Tales) [2] is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris in 1697.