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- Title
Merveilles et contes chez le duc de Saint-Simon.
- Authors
Hourcade, Philippe
- Abstract
What was Saint-Simon's relation to the fairy tale? It is difficult to imagine him immersed in a book of tales. However, the Saint-Simon household inherited from the duchesse de Berry such works as Les contes des fées by Madame d'Aulnoy, La tyrannie des fées détruites, by the comtesse d'Auneuil, Histoires sublimes et allégoriques by Madame de Murat, as well as collections of oriental tales. Although most of these works do not appear in later inventories of Saint-Simon's library, his memoirs nevertheless suggest that Saint-Simon borrowed from the literary or cultural fashion of fairies in his depictions of aristocratic society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FRENCH fairy tales; SAINT-Simon, Henri, comte de, 1760-1825; AULNOY, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705; MEMOIRS
- Publication
Marvels & Tales, 2011, Vol 25, Issue 2, p261
- ISSN
1521-4281
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mat.2011.a462734