BACKGROUND READING
Aulnoy, Mme d’. La Cour et la ville de Madrid vers la fin du XVIIe siècle, including Relation du voyage d’Espagne and Mémoires de la cour d’Espagne, ed. B. Carey (Paris 1874–6).
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Benjamin, Walter. ‘The Storyteller’, in Illuminations. Trans. H. Zohn (London, 1970), p. 122.
Carter, Angela. Ed. The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (London, 1991) and The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (London, 1992).
Cromer, Sylvie. ‘“Le Sauvage”: Histoire sublime et allégorique de Madame de Murat’, Merveilles et Contes, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1987, pp. 2–19.
DeJean, Joan. ‘Salons, Preciosity, and Women’s Influence’, in Denis Hollier, ed., A New History of French Literature (Harvard, 1981), pp. 297–303.
Delarue, Paul. ‘Les Contes merveilleux de Perrault. Faits et rapprochements nouveaux’, Arts et traditions populaires, Nov., 3, 1954, pp. 251–74, esp., pp. 253–62.
Dictionnaire de Biographie française, eds. J. Balteau, M. Barroux, M. Prévost (Paris, 1941).
Foulché-Delbosc, R. Intro., Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Travels into Spain (London, 1930).
Lougee, Carolyn. Le Paradis des femmes: Women, Salons and Social Stratification in 17th-century France (Princeton, 1976).
Palmer, Nancy and Melvin. ‘English Editions of French contes de fées attributed to Mme d’Aulnoy’, Studies in Bibliography, 27 (1974), pp. 227–32.
Ravaisson-Molion, F. Archives de la Bastille (Paris, 1866), Vol. VII, pp. 335–7.
Robert, Raymonde. Le Conte de fées littéraire en France de la fin du XVIIe à la fin du XVIIIe (Nancy, 1982).
Roche-Mazon, Jeanne. ‘Une collaboration inattendue au XVIIe siècle: L’Abbé de Choisy et Charles Perrault’. Mercure Galant, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1928: 513–64. En Marge de ‘L’Oiseau bleu’ (Paris, 1930).
Saint-Évremond, Charles de. Oeuvres Mêlées, Ed. Charles Giraud (Paris, 1866), Tôme III, pp. 415–16.
Scott, R. F. H. The Memoirs of the Abbé de Choisy (London, 1974).
Schiebinger, Londa. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Harvard, 1989), p. 156.
Storer, Marie-Elisabeth. La Mode des contes de fées (Geneva, 1928).
Thelander, Dorothy R. ‘Mother Goose and Her Goslings: The France of Louis XIV seen through the Fairy Tale’, Journal of Modern History, 54, Sept. 1982, pp. 467–96.
Warner, Marina. From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers (London, 1994).
Zipes, Jack. Trans. and intro., Beauties, Beasts & Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales (New York, 1989); Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (New York, 1991).
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