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FiowynTheMagnificent
Registered User
(1/9/06 8:23 am)
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French Fairy tales
Hey all. I'm new. *waves* I'm also supposed to be doing school right now, but I have to say that I am so glad I found this page!! See, I'm having a bloody hard time finding French fairy tales. That's bad, because I'm doing a research report on them. I've hardly found anything, and what I have found is mostly renditions of classic tales that everyone knows anyway (Beauty and the Beast, for example.) I've found a few that at least seem to be originals, but not enough to do a five page paper on. Can anyone help me?
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Writerpatrick
Registered User
(1/9/06 9:13 am)
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Re: French Fairy tales
I always thought that Perrault was French.
www.surlalunefairytales.c...rault.html
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princessterribel
Registered User
(1/9/06 1:13 pm)
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yep
Perrault basically rewrote most of todays familiar stories...and is the most well known french fairy tale writer. Just look him up on this website or run a google search even.
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Random
Registered User
(1/9/06 3:34 pm)
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French Fairytales
If you're looking for someone a bit less mainstream than Perrault, you might try Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy, who was a contemporary of Perrault's, and who wrote quite a number of fairy-tales for her salons. There's a page on her on Surlalune here with a lot of her stories.
Her life was pretty interesting, too, if you have time to look into that.
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MmusicOfTheNight
Unregistered User
(1/9/06 4:18 pm)
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What?
You can't find French fairy tales?!? A lot of the best and most famous fairy tales are French, mostly by Charles Perrault. Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Donkeyskin, and Bluebeard, to name a few. Good luck with the paper! :)
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helen j pilinovsky
Unregistered User
(1/9/06 5:13 pm)
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French Fairy Tales
If you'd like a broad selection of tales, especially ones which are not commonly known, you might want to pick up a copy of Jack Zipes Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales: it contains an excellent selection of tales from both "well-known" authors such as Perrault as well as lesser-known writers such as Mlle. de Lubert.* Good luck!
* Look for the hardcover if possible, as I believe that the paperback contains an abbreviated selection.
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