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 ...
Did you know that the Italian Cinderella murdered her stepmother? Or that Sleeping Beauty had twins before marrying the prince? Or that the cats in Italian Puss-in-Boots stories were female? While ...