The publication includes a complete collection of fairy tales by Marie-Catherine d'Aunois (1651-1705), one of the most famous storytellers of the “gallant age”, surprisingly little known to modern Russian readers. Meanwhile, her name and significance for the French literary fairy tale are quite comparable with the significance of her great contemporary and generally recognized “father” of this genre, Charles Perrault - his name is known to everyone. Sometimes the motives and plots of two storytellers intersect, complementing each other. Moreover, it was Marie-Catherine d’Aunoy who coined the term “fairy tales,” which, since the publication of the collection of her fairy tales of the same name, began to be actively used throughout Europe to denote this genre. The publication is supplied with detailed comments, biographical data, a table of French literary fairy tales from 1690 to 1705 and a decoding of fairy tale types according to the Aarne-Thompson index, a bibliographic index and an index of illustrations. The publication is richly illustrated with the rarest illustrations (black and white and color) from the lifetime and later editions of Madame's fairy tales d'Aunois, and with visual materials that extremely broadly recreate her era.

CONTENTS: Marie-Catherine d'Aunois. FAIRY TALES To your Royal Highness, Madame. Per. M.A. Mr. 9 Volume ONE Charming and Persinette. Per. M.A. Mr. 11Goldilocks. Per. D.L. Savosina 29 Blue Bird. Per. M.A. Mr. 41 Prince-Spirit. Per. E.Yu. Shibanova 69Volume TWOPrincess Vesnyanka. Per. E.Yu. Shibanova 98Princess Rosetta. Per. E.Yu. Shibanova 115 Golden Branch. Per. M.N. Morozova 128Orange Tree and Bee. Per. M.N. Morozova 155 Mouse-Dobrushka. Per. Ya.A. Ushenina (prose), E.Yu. Shibanova (poems) 175Volume THREESaint-Cloud. Start. Per. M.A. Mr. 187Don Gabriel Ponce de Leon. Spanish novella. Start. Per. M.A. Gister 191Lamb. Per. M.A. Mr. 214Don Gabriel Ponce de Leon. Continuation. Per. M.A. Gister 227Vostrushka-Zolyanka. Per. N.V. Chervyakova (prose), M.A. Hister (poems) 242Don Gabriel Ponce de Leon. Continuation. Per. M.A. Gister 259Fortunata. Per. O.L. Berseneva (prose), M.A. Hister (poems) 278Don Gabriel Ponce de Leon. Ending. Per. M.A. Hyster 288 Saint-Cloud. Ending. Per. M.A. Mr. 309 VOLUME FOURTrinket. Per. M.A. Gister 310Don Fernand Toledo. Spanish novella. Start. Per. M.A. Hyster 331Yellow Dwarf. Per. Yu.Ya. Yakhnina (prose), N.D. Shakhovskaya (poems) 338Don Fernand of Toledo. Continuation. Per. M.A. Gister 356Green Snake. Per. M.A. Mr. 367Don Fernand of Toledo. Ending. Per. M.A. Mr. 392NEW TALES, OR FASHIONABLE FEITOM FIRSTPrincess Carpillon. Per. O.L. Berseneva (prose), M.A. Hyster (poems) 405Frog-Benefactor. Per. E.Yu. Shibanova 443Forest fallow deer. Per. D.L. Savosina 462 Volume TWO Message. Per. M.A. Hyster (poems) 492A new nobleman from the philistinism. Start. Per. O.L. Berseneva 493White Cat. Per. Yu.Ya. Yakhnina (prose), N.D. Shakhovskaya (poems) 520A new nobleman from the philistinism. Continuation. Per. O.L. Berseneva 550Belle-Belle, or the Lucky Knight. Per. O.L. Berseneva (prose), E.Yu. Shibanova (poems) 556 Volume THREE A new nobleman from the philistinism. Continuation. Per. O.L. Berseneva 595 Dove and Dove. Per. O.L. Berseneva (prose), E.Yu. Shibanova (poems) 602 A new nobleman from the philistinism. Continuation. Per. O.L. Berseneva 638The story of Princess Yasnaya Zvezdochka and Prince Milon. Start. Per. O.L. Berseneva (prose), E.Yu. Shibanova (poems) 645 A new nobleman from the philistinism. Continuation. Per. O.L. Berseneva 666The story of Princess Yasnaya Zvezdochka and Prince Milon. Ending. Per. O.L. Berseneva (prose), E.Yu. Shibanova (poems) 667 Volume FOUR A new nobleman from the philistinism. Continuation. Per. Ya.A. Ushenina 689 Prince Boar. Per. Ya.A. Ushenina and M.A. Gister (prose), E.Yu. Shibanova (poems) 707 A new nobleman from the philistinism. Continuation. Per. Ya.A. Ushenina 738Dolphin. Per. Ya.A. Ushenina (prose), E.Yu. Shibanova (poems) 748 A new nobleman from the philistinism. Ending. Per. Ushenina 777 ADDITIONS: Madame dunois. Otrada Island. Per. M.A. Gister 795 The story of Prince Odolf of Lapland and the Island of Eternal Joy 807 Mademoiselle de La Force. Persinetta. Per. M.A. Gister 811APPLICATIONS:M.A. Mr. Marie-Catherine d'Aunois and the literary fairy tale: at the origins of the genre 821Notes. Comp. M.A. Gister with the participation of E.Yu. Shibanova 878Index of names of characters in Madame d'Aunois' fairy tales. Comp. M.A. Gister 936Main dates in the life and work of Marie-Catherine d’Aunois. Comp. M.A. Gister 947Fairy tales and collections of fairy tales. Pivot table. 1690-1705 Comp. M.A. Gister 950List of abbreviations 958List of illustrations 966