France's First Fairy Tales: The Restoration and Rise Narratives of Les facetieuses nuictz du Seigneur François Straparole

From: Marvels & Tales | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Bottigheimer, Ruth B | Copyright information

This article explores French fairy tales in the context of print and publishing, in particular the French history of Giovan Francesco Straparola's Piacevoli notti with its interspersed fairy tales. For one or more of their tales, authors such as Charles Perrault, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy Henriette-Julie de Murat, Eustache Le Noble, Jean de Mailly, Antoine Gallands single oral informant, and Antoine Hamilton drew directly or indirectly on Straparola's tales.

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