Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1650/1-1705) was one of the early French fairy tale authors and actually popularized the term fairy tales (contes de fées in French). She ...

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

Combines this beautiful, magical fairy tale world with this very dark and very realistic psychological material.” – Anna Biller, director of The Love Witch In this lovingly crafted, wildly eccentric ...

Most variants of this ATU type come from the French fairy tale by Charles Perrault "Les Fées" or "The Fairies," but the general story comes from a widespread traditional folktale popular in Europe and ...

Based on the original French fairy tale by Charles Perrault (which was a take on an old folk tale), the 1950 Disney animated film marked the first major film adaptation of the love story.