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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 ...
Histoires ou contes du temps passé. 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 work became popular because it was written at a ...
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 to house ...
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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 ...
Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier (niece) Charles Perrault ( / pɛˈroʊ / peh-ROH, US also / pəˈroʊ / pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales ...
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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":