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Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français ( lit. 'The Thousand and One Nights, Arab stories translated into French' ), published in 12 volumes between 1704 and 1717, was the first European version of The Thousand and One Nights tales. The French translation by Antoine Galland (1646–1715) derived from an Arabic text of 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.
The Imp Prince. The Imp Prince (known as Le Prince Lutin in French) is a French fairy tale written by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy and published in her book Fairy Tales ( Les Contes des Fees) in 1697. The word Lutin, in French, can have several translations and meanings. A Lutin was like an imp or hobgoblin in the mythology of Normandy, [1] similar ...
A second form of legend in France during the Middle Ages was epic poetry, partly historical and partly legend with themes covering the formation of France, war, kingship, and important battles. This genre was known as chansons de geste which is Old French for "songs of heroic deeds." It is also called the epics of the "Matter of France":
François-Marie Luzel collected from Brittany Les trois filles du boulanger, or L'eau qui danse, le pomme qui chante et l'oiseau de la verité [7] ("The Baker's Three Daughters, the Dancing Water, The Singing Apple, and the Bird of Truth") [8] - from Plouaret-, [9] and Les Deux Fréres et la Soeur ("The Two Brothers and their Sister"), a tale ...
The Feather of Finist the Falcon; The Green Knight. " The Blue Bird " ( French: L’oiseau bleu) is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697. [1] An English translation was included in The Green Fairy Book, 1892, collected by Andrew Lang. [2] [3] [4]
Madame d'Aulnoy. 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 novel “Contées Des Fairies” (Fairy-Tales) coined the literary genre’s name and was the first fable to feature “Prince Charmant ...
The original tale, titled La Reine de l'isle des fleurs ("The Queen of the Island of Flowers") was published without attribution of authorship in a volume of Le Cabinet des Fées, a French compilation of literary fairy tales, first published in the 18th century. The tale is often attributed to Madame d'Aulnoy.