In Tales from Gallia we have a collection of tales from the French & Gallic folk tradition. These tales were originally collected by Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Comtesse de Sophie Ségur, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d’Aulnoy, Katharine Pyle and Edmund Dulac, representing some of the finest collectors working from the seventeenth century onwards.
As ever it’s been a delight working with these tales. You’ll see from the contents list that some of the more obviously famous French tales, such as Cinderella and Puss in Boots have been left out. I have so many tales of French origin that I wanted to re-tell some of the lesser known examples here. I’m sure, however, that we’ll revisit those remaining classic tales before too long.
French, or Gallic, folklore encompasses the fables, folklore, fairy tales and legends of the French speaking people and their ancestors. Traditions of storytelling have a long and distinguished history, and in the Gallic tradition we can date back at least as far as Occitan literature in the Middle Ages. Occitan examples often include songs, poetry and literature from the South of France from the 11th and 12th centuries, much of which inspired vernacular literature throughout medieval Europe.
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PREFACE
A FAIRY’S BLUNDER
COMORRE
PRINCESS BELLE-ETOILE
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
RICKY OF THE TUFT
THE GREEN SERPENT
WHY THE ANIMALS NO LONGER FEAR THE SHEEP
PRINCESS ROSETTA
A FRENCH PUCK
THE STORY OF BLONDINE, BONNE-BICHE, AND BEAU-MINON
DONKEY SKIN
PERONNIK THE IDIOT
THE HIND OF THE WOOD
THE LITTLE GREY MOUSE
THE STONES OF PLOUVINEC
THE YELLOW DWARF
PRINCE FEATHERHEAD AND THE PRINCESS CELANDINE
ROBIN REDBREAST
THE FAIRIES
THE SEVEN CONQUERORS OF THE QUEEN OF THE MISSISSIPPI
THE ADVENTURES OF COVAN THE BROWN-HAIRED
THE WHITE INN
GRACIOSA AND PERCINET
HISTORICAL NOTES
ABOUT THE EDITOR
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I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household – Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.
A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.
I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.
Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, Euro Sport and others as a rugby ‘Stato’, covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late ’90’s and early ’00’s.
I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President – Technology with a major UK Fin Tech company.
You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
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