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Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1650/1651 – 14 January 1705),[1] also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was a French author known for her literary fairy tales. The term contes de fées (fairy tales) has been attributed to her, but her work was called "contes DES fées" (tales of the fairies); the term "contes DE fées" comes from Mme de Murat's first fairytale compilation: "Contes de fées", published in 1698. [2]
D'Aulnoy was born in Barneville-la-Bertran, in Normandy, as a member of the noble family of Le Jumel de Barneville. She was the niece of Marie Bruneau des Loges, the friend of François de Malherbe and of Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac.[3] In 1666, she was given at the age of fifteen (by her father) in an arranged marriage to a Parisian thirty years older—François de la Motte, Baron d'Aulnoy, of the household of the Duke of Vendôme. The baron was a freethinker and a known gambler. In 1669, the Baron d'Aulnoy was accused of treason (speaking out against imposed taxes by the King) by two men who may have been the lovers of Mme d'Aulnoy (aged nineteen) and her mother, who by a second marriage was the Marchioness de Gadagne.[3][4] If found guilty, the verdict would have meant execution. The Baron d'Aulnoy spent three years in the Bastille before finally convincing the court of his innocence. The two men implicated in the accusation were executed instead. The accusations and counter-accusations are recorded in the Bastille's archives. The Marchioness de Gadagne fled to England, and although a warrant was served for Mme d'Aulnoy's arrest, she escaped from officers through a window and hid in a church.
It is possible she then worked as a spy for France (and perhaps spent some time in Holland, Spain, and England) before returning to Paris in 1685 (possibly as repayment for spying).[4] The Marchioness de Gadagne stayed in Madrid financed by a pension from the Spanish King. Mme d'Aulnoy hosted salon gatherings in her home at rue Saint-Benoît that were frequented by leading aristocrats and princes, including her close friend, Saint-Evremond.
In 1699, Mme d'Aulnoy's friend Angélique Ticquet was beheaded for having a servant retaliate against Angélique's abusive husband, also from a forced marriage. The servant was hanged for shooting and wounding Councillor Ticquet. Mme d'Aulnoy escaped persecution despite her alleged involvement and discontinued involvement in the Paris social scene for twenty years.
D'Aulnoy published twelve books including three pseudo-memoirs, two fairy tale collections and three "historical" novels. She contributed to the anthology Recueil des plus belles pièces des poètes français in 1692 and wrote a series of travel memoirs based on her supposed travels through court life in Madrid and London. And although her insights may have been plagiarized and invented, these stories later became her most popular works. She gained the reputation as a historian and recorder of tales from outside France, and elected as a member of Paduan Accademia dei Ricovrati, she was called by the name of the muse of history, Clio. However, at this time the idea of history was a much looser term which included her fictional accounts. In 150 years, the more strictly documented form of the term led to her accounts being declared "fraudulent". However, in France and England at the time her works were considered as mere entertainment, a sentiment reflected in the reviews of the period. Her truly accurate attempts at historical accounts telling of the Dutch wars of Louis XIV were less successful. The money she made from her writing helped raise her three daughters, not all produced during her time with the Baron d'Aulnoy .
Her most popular works were her fairy tales and adventure stories as told in Les Contes des Fées (Tales of fairies) and Contes Nouveaux, ou Les Fées à la Mode. Unlike the folk tales of the Grimm Brothers, who were born some 135 years later than d'Aulnoy, she told her stories in a more conversational style, as they might be told in salons. Much of her writing created a world of animal brides and grooms, where love and happiness came to heroines after surmounting great obstacles. These stories were far from suitable for children and many English adaptations are very dissimilar to the original.
Scholars Jack Zipes and David Blamires suggest that, due to the high number of similarities of MMe. d'Aulnoy's literary work with recognizable folkloric material, she must have been acquainted with the oral tradition or their literary reworking during her time.[5][6] In addition, Jacques Barchilon stated that d'Aulnoy's works can be classified under some popular tale types of the international index of folktale classification, some of which "The Animal Bride" and "Animal as Bridegroom" tale types.[7]
Issueedit
Madame d'Aulnoy had six children, two of whom were born after she became estranged from her husband, although they bore his name:
Marie-Angélique (26 January 1667, died young, probably before November 1669[8])
Dominique-César, her only son (23 November 1667, died young)
Marie-Anne, Dame de Barneville (27 October 1668[9] – before 1726[10]); she married on 29 November 1685 Claude-Denis de Héère (1658 – before June 1711[10]), a nobleman from Berry, who became Sire de Barneville, and had:
Jacques-Denis-Augustin de Héère (1698–?); he married on 2 November 1734 Geneviève Françoise de La Fauche. No issue.
Marguerite de Héère, Dame de Vaudoy.
Denise-Lucrèce de Héère (? – after 1772).
Marguerite-Françoise de Héère; she married Jacques-François Tardieu, "Count" of Malissy.
Marie-Anne de Héère (6 August 1701 – 3 January 1737); she married on 24 September 1735 Jean-Pierre de Fontanges, and had a son:
François-Alexandre de Fontanges (28 December 1736 – 1754).
Judith-Henriette (14 November 1669 – after 1711); she married on 4 September 1704 in Madrid Giulio Orazio Pucci, second Marquis of Bargente (Barsento, in Italy), and had at least two children:
Luisa Maria Pucci; she was the first wife of Francesco Guicciardini.
Thérèse-Aimée (13 October 1676 – after 1726[11]); she married Edmé des Préaux d'Antigny and had a daughter:
Edmée-Angélique des Préaux d'Antigny (born on 18 November 1704 – death date unknown); she was married to Pierre-Joseph Vermale but the marriage was annulled.
Françoise-Angélique-Maxime (c. 1677 – 17 November 1727); she never married and had no issue.
Worksedit
Sentiments of a Penitent Soul (Sentiments d'une Ame penitente)
The Return of a Soul to God (Le Retour d'une Ame à Dieu)
History of Hippolyte, Count of Douglas (Histoire d'Hippolyte, comte de Duglas) (1690)
The present court of Spain, or, The modern gallantry of the Spanish nobility unfolded in several histories and seventy five letters from the enamour'd Teresa, to her beloved the Marquess of Mancera (1693) (Memoire de la cour d'Espagne) (1690)
Memories of the Court of Spain, Account of the Voyage to Spain (Memoires de la cour d'Espagne, Relation du voyage d'Espagne) (1690 or 1691)
Memories of the Court of England (Mémoires de la cour d'Angleterre) (1695)
^Commire, Anne (8 October 1999). Women in World History. Gale. p. 626. ISBN978-0-7876-4061-3.
^Zipes, Jack (2001). The great fairy tale tradition : from Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm : texts, criticism. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN0-393-97636-X.
^ abOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Aulnoy, Marie Catherine le Jumel de Barneville de la Motte". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 917.
^Zipes, Jack (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford University Press. 2015. p. 33. ISBN978-0-19-968982-8.
^Blamires, David. "4. From Madame d'Aulnoy to Mother Bunch: popularity and the fairy tale". In: Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts (eds.). Popular Children’s Literature in Britain. Routledge, 2008. ISBN9781138276710.
^Barchilon, Jacques. "Adaptations of Folktales and Motifs in Madame D'Aulnoy's "Contes": A Brief Survey of Influence and Diffusion". In: Marvels & Tales 23, no. 2 (2009): 353-64. Accessed 23 June 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/41388930.
^Jeanne Roche-Mazon, Autour des contes de fées : recueil d'études de Jeanne Roche-Mazon, accompagnées de pièces complémentaires, Volume 55, 1968, p. 8
^Raymond Foulché-Delbosc, Revue Hispanique, Volume 69, 1926, p. 11.
^ abRaymond Foulché-Delbosc, Revue Hispanique, Volume 69, 1926, p. 106.
^ abRaymond Foulché-Delbosc, Revue Hispanique, Volume 69, 1926, p 109.
^Planché, James Robinson. Fairy Tales by The Countess d'Aulnoy, translated by J. R. Planché. London: G. Routledge & Co. 1856. pp. 332-374.
Referencesedit
Disse, Dorothy. (1 October 2004) . Other Women's Voices. Retrieved 22 January 2005.
Warner, Marina (1995). From the beast to the blonde : on fairy tales and their tellers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN978-0-374-15901-6.
Trinquet Charlotte. Le conte de fées français (1690-1700) : Traditions italiennes et origines aristocratiques [French Fairy tale (1690-1700) : Italian Traditions and Aristocratic Origins]. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2012.
Amy Vanderlyn De Graff, The Tower and the Well (1984), the standard psychoanalytic study.
Further readingedit
Palmer, Nancy, and Melvin Palmer. "English Editions of French "Contes De Fees" Attributed to Mme D'Aulnoy." Studies in Bibliography 27 (1974): 227-32. Accessed 29 June 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/40371596.
Planché, James Robinson. 'Fairy Tales by The Countess d'Aulnoy, translated by J. R. Planché. London: G. Routledge & Co. 1856.
Verdier, Gabrielle. "COMMENT L'AUTEUR DES «FÉES À LA MODE» DEVINT «MOTHER BUNCH»: MÉTAMORPHOSES DE LA COMTESSE D'AULNOY EN ANGLETERRE." Merveilles & Contes 10, no. 2 (1996): 285–309. Accessed 30 June 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/41390464.
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Soul Sentiments d une Ame penitente The Return of a Soul to God Le Retour d une Ame a Dieu History of Hippolyte Count of Douglas Histoire d Hippolyte comte de Duglas 1690 History of Jean de Bourbon Prince of Carency Histoire de Jean de Bourbon Prince de Carency 1692 The Count of Warwick Le Comte de Warwick Memories of the Court of Spain Account of the Voyage to Spain Memoires de la cour d Espagne Relation du voyage d Espagne 1690 or 1691 Memories of the Court of England Memoires de la cour d Angleterre 1695 From Fairy Tales Les Contes des Fees 1697 SpouseFrancois de la Motte Baron d AulnoyChildren6 Contents 1 Biography 2 Issue 3 Works 4 Notes 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links and resourcesBiography editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed February 2024 Learn how and when to remove this template message D Aulnoy was born in Barneville la Bertran in Normandy as a member of the noble family of Le Jumel de Barneville She was the niece of Marie Bruneau des Loges the friend of Francois de Malherbe and of Jean Louis Guez de Balzac 3 In 1666 she was given at the age of fifteen by her father in an arranged marriage to a Parisian thirty years older Francois de la Motte Baron d Aulnoy of the household of the Duke of Vendome The baron was a freethinker and a known gambler In 1669 the Baron d Aulnoy was accused of treason speaking out against imposed taxes by the King by two men who may have been the lovers of Mme d Aulnoy aged nineteen and her mother who by a second marriage was the Marchioness de Gadagne 3 4 If found guilty the verdict would have meant execution The Baron d Aulnoy spent three years in the Bastille before finally convincing the court of his innocence The two men implicated in the accusation were executed instead The accusations and counter accusations are recorded in the Bastille s archives The Marchioness de Gadagne fled to England and although a warrant was served for Mme d Aulnoy s arrest she escaped from officers through a window and hid in a church It is possible she then worked as a spy for France and perhaps spent some time in Holland Spain and England before returning to Paris in 1685 possibly as repayment for spying 4 The Marchioness de Gadagne stayed in Madrid financed by a pension from the Spanish King Mme d Aulnoy hosted salon gatherings in her home at rue Saint Benoit that were frequented by leading aristocrats and princes including her close friend Saint Evremond In 1699 Mme d Aulnoy s friend Angelique Ticquet was beheaded for having a servant retaliate against Angelique s abusive husband also from a forced marriage The servant was hanged for shooting and wounding Councillor Ticquet Mme d Aulnoy escaped persecution despite her alleged involvement and discontinued involvement in the Paris social scene for twenty years D Aulnoy published twelve books including three pseudo memoirs two fairy tale collections and three historical novels She contributed to the anthology Recueil des plus belles pieces des poetes francais in 1692 and wrote a series of travel memoirs based on her supposed travels through court life in Madrid and London And although her insights may have been plagiarized and invented these stories later became her most popular works She gained the reputation as a historian and recorder of tales from outside France and elected as a member of Paduan Accademia dei Ricovrati she was called by the name of the muse of history Clio However at this time the idea of history was a much looser term which included her fictional accounts In 150 years the more strictly documented form of the term led to her accounts being declared fraudulent However in France and England at the time her works were considered as mere entertainment a sentiment reflected in the reviews of the period Her truly accurate attempts at historical accounts telling of the Dutch wars of Louis XIV were less successful The money she made from her writing helped raise her three daughters not all produced during her time with the Baron d Aulnoy Her most popular works were her fairy tales and adventure stories as told in Les Contes des Fees Tales of fairies and Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fees a la Mode Unlike the folk tales of the Grimm Brothers who were born some 135 years later than d Aulnoy she told her stories in a more conversational style as they might be told in salons Much of her writing created a world of animal brides and grooms where love and happiness came to heroines after surmounting great obstacles These stories were far from suitable for children and many English adaptations are very dissimilar to the original Scholars Jack Zipes and David Blamires suggest that due to the high number of similarities of MMe d Aulnoy s literary work with recognizable folkloric material she must have been acquainted with the oral tradition or their literary reworking during her time 5 6 In addition Jacques Barchilon stated that d Aulnoy s works can be classified under some popular tale types of the international index of folktale classification some of which The Animal Bride and Animal as Bridegroom tale types 7 Issue editMadame d Aulnoy had six children two of whom were born after she became estranged from her husband although they bore his name Marie Angelique 26 January 1667 died young probably before November 1669 8 Dominique Cesar her only son 23 November 1667 died young Marie Anne Dame de Barneville 27 October 1668 9 before 1726 10 she married on 29 November 1685 Claude Denis de Heere 1658 before June 1711 10 a nobleman from Berry who became Sire de Barneville and had Jacques Denis Augustin de Heere 1698 he married on 2 November 1734 Genevieve Francoise de La Fauche No issue Marguerite de Heere Dame de Vaudoy Denise Lucrece de Heere after 1772 Marguerite Francoise de Heere she married Jacques Francois Tardieu Count of Malissy Marie Anne de Heere 6 August 1701 3 January 1737 she married on 24 September 1735 Jean Pierre de Fontanges and had a son Francois Alexandre de Fontanges 28 December 1736 1754 Judith Henriette 14 November 1669 after 1711 she married on 4 September 1704 in Madrid Giulio Orazio Pucci second Marquis of Bargente Barsento in Italy and had at least two children Antonio Pucci 11 Luisa Maria Pucci she was the first wife of Francesco Guicciardini Therese Aimee 13 October 1676 after 1726 11 she married Edme des Preaux d Antigny and had a daughter Edmee Angelique des Preaux d Antigny born on 18 November 1704 death date unknown she was married to Pierre Joseph Vermale but the marriage was annulled Francoise Angelique Maxime c 1677 17 November 1727 she never married and had no issue Works editSentiments of a Penitent Soul Sentiments d une Ame penitente The Return of a Soul to God Le Retour d une Ame a Dieu History of Hippolyte Count of Douglas Histoire d Hippolyte comte de Duglas 1690 History of Jean de Bourbon Prince of Carency Histoire de Jean de Bourbon Prince de Carency 1692 The Count of Warwick Le Comte de Warwick The present court of Spain or The modern gallantry of the Spanish nobility unfolded in several histories and seventy five letters from the enamour d Teresa to her beloved the Marquess of Mancera 1693 Memoire de la cour d Espagne 1690 Memories of the Court of Spain Account of the Voyage to Spain Memoires de la cour d Espagne Relation du voyage d Espagne 1690 or 1691 Memories of the Court of England Memoires de la cour d Angleterre 1695 From Fairy Tales Les Contes des Fees 1697 Babiole Cunning Cinders Finette Cendron Graciosa and Percinet Gracieuse et Percinet Princess Mayblossom La Princesse Printaniere Princess Rosette La Princesse Rosette The Bee and the Orange Tree L Orangier et l Abeille The Benevolent Frog or The Frog and the Lion Fairy La Grenouille bienfaisante The Blue Bird L Oiseau bleu The Dolphin Le Dauphin The Fortunate One or Felicia and the Pot of Pinks Fortunee The Imp Prince Le Prince Lutin The Little Good Mouse La bonne petite souris The Ram or The Wonderful Sheep Le Mouton The Story of Pretty Goldilocks or The Beauty with Golden Hair La Belle aux cheveux d or The Yellow Dwarf Le Nain jaune The White Doe or The Hind in the Wood La Biche au bois From New Tales or Fairies in Fashion Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fees a la Mode 1698 Belle Belle Belle Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortune Green Serpent Serpentin vert The White Cat La Chatte Blanche The Golden Branch Le Rameau d Or The Pigeon and the Dove Le Pigeon et la Colombe Prince Marcassin Le Prince Marcassin Princess Belle Etoile La Princesse Belle Etoile The Princess Carpillon Princesse Carpillon 12 Notes edit Commire Anne 8 October 1999 Women in World History Gale p 626 ISBN 978 0 7876 4061 3 Zipes Jack 2001 The great fairy tale tradition from Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm texts criticism New York W W Norton ISBN 0 393 97636 X a b nbsp One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Aulnoy Marie Catherine le Jumel de Barneville de la Motte Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 2 11th ed Cambridge University Press p 917 a b Warner 1995 pp 284 5 Zipes Jack ed The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales Oxford University Press 2015 p 33 ISBN 978 0 19 968982 8 Blamires David 4 From Madame d Aulnoy to Mother Bunch popularity and the fairy tale In Julia Briggs Dennis Butts eds Popular Children s Literature in Britain Routledge 2008 ISBN 9781138276710 Barchilon Jacques Adaptations of Folktales and Motifs in Madame D Aulnoy s Contes A Brief Survey of Influence and Diffusion In Marvels amp Tales 23 no 2 2009 353 64 Accessed 23 June 2020 www jstor org stable 41388930 Jeanne Roche Mazon Autour des contes de fees recueil d etudes de Jeanne Roche Mazon accompagnees de pieces complementaires Volume 55 1968 p 8 Raymond Foulche Delbosc Revue Hispanique Volume 69 1926 p 11 a b Raymond Foulche Delbosc Revue Hispanique Volume 69 1926 p 106 a b Raymond Foulche Delbosc Revue Hispanique Volume 69 1926 p 109 Planche James Robinson Fairy Tales by The Countess d Aulnoy translated by J R Planche London G Routledge amp Co 1856 pp 332 374 References editDisse Dorothy 1 October 2004 Marie Catherine d Aulnoy Other Women s Voices Retrieved 22 January 2005 Warner Marina 1995 From the beast to the blonde on fairy tales and their tellers New York Farrar Straus and Giroux ISBN 978 0 374 15901 6 Trinquet Charlotte Le conte de fees francais 1690 1700 Traditions italiennes et origines aristocratiques French Fairy tale 1690 1700 Italian Traditions and Aristocratic Origins Tubingen Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2012 Zipes Jack When Dreams Came True Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition ISBN 0 415 92151 1 Amy Vanderlyn De Graff The Tower and the Well 1984 the standard psychoanalytic study Further reading editPalmer Nancy and Melvin Palmer English Editions of French Contes De Fees Attributed to Mme D Aulnoy Studies in Bibliography 27 1974 227 32 Accessed 29 June 2020 www jstor org stable 40371596 Planche James Robinson Fairy Tales by The Countess d Aulnoy translated by J R Planche London G Routledge amp Co 1856 Verdier Gabrielle COMMENT L AUTEUR DES FEES A LA MODE DEVINT MOTHER BUNCH METAMORPHOSES DE LA COMTESSE D AULNOY EN ANGLETERRE Merveilles amp Contes 10 no 2 1996 285 309 Accessed 30 June 2020 www jstor org stable 41390464 External links and resources edit nbsp Wikisource has original text related to this article Madame d Aulnoy SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages The Fairy Tales of Madame d Aulnoy 1893 with a guide to d Aulnoy s tales in English Archived 10 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine Works by Madame d Aulnoy at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Madame d Aulnoy at Internet Archive Works by Madame d Aulnoy at LibriVox public domain audiobooks nbsp Works by Madame d Aulnoy at Toronto Public Library Les Contes de Fees The Literary Fairy Tales of France usurped Comtesse d Aulnoy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Madame d Aulnoy at Library of Congress with 72 library catalogue records Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Madame d 27Aulnoy amp oldid 1202455426, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
