Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil, (? – 10 January 1700) was a French salonnière and author of fairy tales.[1][2]
Louise de Bossigny comtesse d'Auneuil | |
|---|---|
| Died | 10 January 1700 |
| Pen name | Madame la comtesse D. L. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | French |
| Citizenship | French |
| Genre | Fairy tale |
| Notable works | La Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed) |
Life
editShe married the Comte d'Auneuil and established her standing in Paris and at court with a salon that was "open to all the beaux esprits and to all the women who wrote."[3] Her fairy tale collection, La Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed), playfully alludes to the pre-existing genre of fairy tales popular in her time.[4] Her final work, Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier (The Knights Errant and the Familiar Genie), is divided into two sections, the first evoking chivalric romances and the second presenting a brief sequence of tales purportedly translated from Arabic.[4]
Works
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Duggan, Anne E.; Haase, Donald; Callow, Helen, eds. (2016). Folktales and fairy tales: traditions and texts from around the world (Second ed.). Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-61069-253-3.
- ^ Zipes, Jack, ed. (2015). The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. OUP Oxford. p. 35. ISBN 9780191004162.
- ^ Mayer, Charles-Joseph (1786). "Notice des Auteurs". In Mayer, Charles-Joseph (ed.). Le Cabinet des fées. Vol. 37. Paris: Barde, Manget & Compagnie. p. 51.
- ^ a b Neemann, Harold (2008). "Auneuil, Louise de Bossigny, Comtesse d' (d. c. 1700)". In Haase, Donald (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780313334429.
External links
edit- Works by Louise de Bossigny Auneuil at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
- La Tyrannie des fées détruite in Le Cabinet des fées at Internet Archive
- Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier at Internet Archive
- Partial translations of The Knights Errant and The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed in a volume of work conflated with Madame d'Aulnoy's at HathiTrust