Books by Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon

Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon (1664-1734), a relative of the better-known Charles Perrault, was among the most important creators of the fairy tales genre. This ground-breaking collection gathers four stories originally published in 1696, a year before Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose, the classic The Dark Tower and the Luminous Days published in 1705, as well as an essay written in the form of a letter, in which Mlle L'Héritier casts more light on the detail of her thinking, the process by which the tales came to be written and the various things that she was attempting to achieve.These stories may well be the source material that inspired Cinderella and the Brothers Grimm's Rumpelstiltskin, amongst others, and are not an adaptation of folklore, but an attempt to recycle literary inventions attributed to the medieval troubadours.

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to access old and often rare books from the BnF's heritage funds.

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to access old and often rare books from the BnF's heritage funds.

På Solkongens tid var det på mode blandt aristokratiets damer at gendigte og nedskrive eventyr, og det var den almindelige opfattelse, at disse gendigtninger var langt bedre end de antikke epos og folkeeventyr, som regel lå til grund for damernes skriverier.Ikke mange af disse eventyr findes direkte oversat til dansk, selv om de kan genfindes i forkortede og omarbejdede udgaver fra andre forfatteres hånd. De her foreliggende fremstår i det store og hele som oversat fra de franske 1600-tals originaler.Indhold:Skønheden og udyret, af madame de BeaumountDen nysgerrige kone, af madame de Beaumount Prinsesse Rosette, af madame d'AulnoySkøn Guldhår, af madame d'Aulnoy Finettes eventyr, af madame L'Heretier de Villandon