Madame d'Aulnoy (1650–1705)
Author of The Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy
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Works by Madame d'Aulnoy
Mémoires de la cour d'Espagne 2 copies
La cour et la ville de Madrid vers la fin du XVIIe siècle Relation du voyage d'Espagne par la comtesse… (2011) 2 copies
The History of the Tales of the Fairies. Translated From the French. Containing, I. The Tale of Graciosa, ... VI. The… (2018) 1 copy
Belle Belle ou le Chevalier Fortuné suivi de La Belle aux cheveux d'or (Œuvre du Matrimoine) (2022) 1 copy
Secret memoirs of the Duke and Dutchess of O intermix'd with the amorous intrigues and adventures of the most eminent… (2010) 1 copy
Fiabe francesi 1 copy
Le Cabinet des f 1 copy
Le Comte de Warwick 1 copy
Contes, T. 1 1 copy
Contes - Tome I 1 copy
Contes - Tome II 1 copy
The Great Green Worm 1 copy
Contes, T. 2 1 copy
Associated Works
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contributor — 563 copies
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm [Norton Critical Edition] (2001) — Contributor — 352 copies
Ravel: Boléro / Ma mère l'Oye / Rapsodie espagnole / Une barque sur l'océan / Alborada del gracioso (1994) — Original story — 11 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Madame d'Aulnoy
- Legal name
- baronne d'Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville,
- Other names
- Comtesse d'Aulnoy
Baronne d'Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, - Birthdate
- 1650
- Date of death
- 1705-01-04
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- France
- Country (for map)
- France
- Birthplace
- Barneville-la-Bertran, France
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Places of residence
- Barneville-la-Bertran, France
Paris, France - Occupations
- novelist
historian
fairy tale writer
salonniere - Relationships
- L'Heritier, Marie-Jeanne (friend)
- Awards and honors
- Accademia dei Ricovrati
- Short biography
- Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, known as Madame d’Aulnoy, was born to an aristocratic French family in Barneville-la-Bertran, Normandy. In 1666, at about age 15, she was forced to marry François de la Motte, Baron d'Aulnoy, 30 years her senior. It was an unhappy union, and she was imprisoned in 1669 for plotting to kill her husband, but released the following year for lack of evidence. For the next 13 years, she traveled around Europe -- what she did during this period is still a mystery -- and then in 1685, bought a house on the rue Saint-Benoît in Paris. There she established a popular salon and began her literary career. Her first important novel, Histoire d’Hypolite, comte de Duglas (The Story of Hypolitus, Count of Douglas), which appeared in 1690,was a great success and contained her first major fairy tale, "L’Ile de la félicité" ("The Island of Happiness"). She followed it up the same year with a bestselling pseudo-history, Mémoires de la cour d’Espagne (Memoirs of the Spanish Court) and in 1691 with an epistolary travel narrative, Relation du voyage d’Espagne (An Account of a Journey to Spain). Eventually she published several volumes of fairy tales: Les Contes des Fées, I–III (1696-1697), Les Contes de Fées, IV (1698), and Contes Nouveaux ou les Fées à la Mode, I–IV (New Tales, or Fairies in Fashion, 1698). Madame d’Aulnoy influenced other writers and the vogue for writing fairy tales among other aristocratic women in late 17th century France. It was with a 1699 translation of Les Contes de Fées published in the UK that the term "fairy tales" entered the English language, along with the first use of the name "Prince Charming."
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