These tales are not your Disney fairy tales. No, they’re better.

Of course you’ve heard of the Brothers Grimm (Rapunzel). Of course you have, because they made sure of it, as did Charles Perrault (Cinderella). I bet you haven’t heard of Marie-Catherine D’Aulnoy, though. Or Henriette-Julie Murat or Charlotte-Rose La Force, or any one of the other French conteuses who lived and wrote immensely popular contes…

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