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Thoughts on Liudmila Menager’s The Princess and the Beast: The Mirror of Truth
Published May 21, 2020
Updated May 21, 2020
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Thoughts on Liudmila Menager’s The Princess and the Beast: The Mirror of Truth
Fairy tales and legends are as old as time. Initially passed from generation to generation in the oral tradition of practically every culture, they span the continents, from the Indian story Panchatantra (3rd century BC) to the Roman love story of Cupid and Psyche (100-200 AD), to the magic of 1001 Nights (first published in Arabic in 1775).
The term “fairy tale,” however, was coined by Madame D’Aulnoy, who wrote a collection of Conte de Fees in 1697. Both the oral and the written tradition of conte de fees became very popular in the French salons, where learned socialites (les salonnieres) mingled with some of the most prominent writers and artists of the times to discuss art, literature, science and
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