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Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force is best known today as the author of Persinette, a forerunner to Rapunzel. One storyteller of a cluster of aristocratic French women in the salons near the end of the 17th century engaging with tales of Faeries. In 1697 she also conceived of Plus Belle que Fée, translated in English as Fairer-than-a-Fairy or simply Fairer.
British dramatist James Robinson Planché translated and included the story in the English collection Four-and-twenty Fairy Tales in 1858. And so, it has since been republished in different collections for over a century. Too showing up in academic sources. Additionally, fully translated anew (though only in eBook) in 2019 by Laura Christensen who has an abiding love for French folklore and the period.
British dramatist James Robinson Planché translated and included the story in the English collection Four-and-twenty Fairy Tales in 1858. And so, it has since been republished in different collections for over a century. Too showing up in academic sources. Additionally, fully translated anew (though only in eBook) in 2019 by Laura Christensen who has an abiding love for French folklore and the period.
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Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement and Kidnapping
Minor: Suicide
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