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  • Countess d'Aulnoy, detail of an engraving by Basan after a painting by Élisabeth ChĂ©ron
    Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, countess d’Aulnoy

    Her best-remembered works are Contes de fĂ©es (1697; “Fairy Tales”) and Les Contes nouveaux ou les fĂ©es Ă  la mode (1698; “New Tales, or the Fancy of the Fairies”), written in the manner of the great fairy tales of Charles Perrault but laced with her own sardonic touch. Her


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    Her best-remembered works are Contes de fĂ©es (1697; “Fairy Tales”) and Les Contes nouveaux ou les fĂ©es Ă  la mode (1698; “New Tales, or the Fancy of the Fairies”), written in the manner of the great fairy tales of Charles Perrault but laced with her own sardonic touch. Her


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