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Madame d'Aulnoy

Born

Barneville-la-Bertran, Calvados, France

Died

January 04, 1705

Genre

Fairy Tales, Biography, Historical Fiction

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Madame d'Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy) (1650/1651–4 January 1705) was a French writer known for her fairy tales. When she termed her works contes de fées (fairy tales, or literally, "Tales of the Fairies."), she originated the term that is now generally used for the genre. Her 'fairy tales' were written in a style suitable for entertaining in adult salon gatherings, and not with a child audience in mind.

d'Aulnoy also wrote works of history (although not using modern attitudes to historical accuracy), pseudo-memoirs, and a few historical novels.

Born a member of the noble Le Jumel de Barneville family, she was known as the baronne d'Aulnoy by marriage. ...more

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	The Fairy Tales Of Madame d'Aulnoy by Madame d'Aulnoy, Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (Introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1698 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The White Cat and Other Old French Fairy Tales by Madame d'Aulnoy, Rachel Field, Elizabeth MacKinstry 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1928 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	العصفور الأزرق وحكايات أخرى by Madame d'Aulnoy, ماري طوق (ترجمة) 3.32 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1698 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The White Cat 4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island of Happiness: Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy by Madame d'Aulnoy, Natalie Frank (Contributor), Jack D. Zipes (Translation) 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contes des Fées, suivis des Contes nouveaux, ou, Les Fées à la Mode by Madame d'Aulnoy, Nadine Jasmin (Editor), Raymonde Robert (Introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La princesse Belle Etoile et le prince Cheri 3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fiabe d'Amore by Madame d'Aulnoy, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Carlo Collodi (Traduttore) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'oiseau bleu, et autres contes de Madame d'Aulnoy by Madame d'Aulnoy, Frédéric Clément 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contes nouveaux ou les fées a la mode 3.13 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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La cour et la ville de Madrid vers la fin du XVIIe siècle (2 books)
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“Once upon a time there was a great queen who, having given birth to twin daughters, invited twelve fairies who lived nearby to come and bestow gifts upon them, as was the custom in those days. Indeed, it was a very useful custom, for the power of the fairies generally compensated for the deficiencies of nature. Sometimes, however, they also spoiled what nature had done its best to make perfect, as we shall soon see.

("Green Serpent")”
― Marie-Catharine d'Aulnoy, Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

tags: fairies, fairy-tales

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“Bird, with wings of heaven’s blue,
Haste to where I wait for you”
― Madame D' Aulnoy, The Fairy Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy

tags: blue-bird, fairy-tale, fairy-tales

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“Love, how difficult it is to hide thee! Thou art everywhere visible, on a lover’s lips, in his eyes, in the sound of his voice. When we love, the signs of it appear in our every action, in our silence, our conversation, in our joy, in our sorrow.”
― Madame D' Aulnoy, The Fairy Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy

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