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On the Literary Origins of Folkloric Fairy Tales: A Comparison between Madame d’Aulnoy’s “Finette Cendron” and Frank Bourisaw’s “Belle Finette”
- Marvels & Tales
- Wayne State University Press
- Volume 21, Number 1, 2007
- pp. 34-49
- 10.1353/mat.2007.a241659
- Article
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Mme d’Aulnoy’s “Finette Cendron” underlies an American oral telling, “Belle Finette.” Since no trace of the tale in this form exists in French oral tradition, the author speculates that still-undocumented chapbooks together with motifs familiar from other Western European fairy tales provided the raw material for its Missouri teller.