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Dans ce Cabinet des Fées, le merveilleux français déploie ses fastes: un recueil de contes classiques signés Gérard, Leprince de Beaumont et Perrault. Entre palais ensorcelés, forêts profondes et épreuves secrètes, s’entrelacent magie, morale et destin. Ici, l’esprit l’emporte sur la force, la vertu se révèle à l’épreuve, et chaque enchantement recèle une leçon. La prose vive et délicate de l’époque confère à ces récits une grâce intemporelle.

This collection of 40 fairy tales contains well-known favorites from authors like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Charles Perrault, Madame de Beaumont, and Joseph Jacobs.

I have created this special collection of stories because…in my youth and even today I love the fantasy and magic of fairytales, and I grew up longing for a prince charming of my own one day. Of course being a little boy, back then, I tended to imagine myself in the role of a princess as that seemed the only option.

"Little Red Riding Hood" is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales. It was later retold in the 19th-century by the Brothers Grimm. The story has varied considerably in different versions over the centuries, translations, and as the subject of numerous modern adaptations. Other names for the story are "Little Red Cap" or simply "Red Riding Hood". The story centers around a girl named Little Red Riding Hood, named after her red hooded cape that she wears.

Rodeada por uma abundância de flores silvestres, no meio do bosque, a Capuchinho Vermelho se dirige com um cestinho cheio de mercadorias à sua avó doente. Ela está sozinha - até que um lobo mau a acompanhe, convidando-a a se desviar de seu caminho no bosque. A Capuchinho Vermelho suspeita que o seu cestinho cheio de guloseimas não é a única coisa que um lobo mau está atrás.

Cinderella is the story of an orphan girl subjected to the tyranny of her evil stepmother and her two stepsisters, who manages to find the strength to wake up and empower herself. A classic revisited that preserves the beauty, magic and characters of the original story. Enjoy this wonderfully produced fairy tale, narrated by professional actors and set with music and sound effects.

A single act of kindness… and a touch of magic that changes everything. In The Fairy, Charles Perrault delivers a timeless tale of virtue, humility, and the quiet rewards of a good heart. When a kind and gentle girl shows compassion to a mysterious stranger, she is granted a magical gift—one...

The setting is wealthy French society, in all its richness and style. The tension created by the young wife’s breaking of a taboo and her building fear of her villainous husband; the curiously magical power of the words of the heroine’s sister as she calls out in secret; the climax of the story with the rapid intercutting between characters—all make for a tale that begs to heard.

When a beautiful princess is cursed by an offended fairy to prick her finger on a spindle and fall into an enchanted sleep for a hundred years, the entire kingdom slumbers with her. Hidden behind an impenetrable forest of thorns, the palace waits — silent, forgotten, and alive with magic. A century later, a brave young prince discovers the mysterious castle and awakens the princess with a kiss, beginning a tale that unfolds far beyond the familiar happily ever after.

Barbablù è una fiaba trascritta da Charles Perrault nel XVII secolo che fece la sua prima apparizione nella raccolta Histoires ou contes du temps passé, nella precedente versione manoscritta intitolata I racconti di Mamma Oca, nel 1697.

Publicados en 1697 en Francia con el título de Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye, los ocho relatos incluidos en este libro han sido objeto de incontables versiones y adaptaciones, además de haber sufrido numerosas oleadas de censura en función de la cambiante pacatería del momento. El resultado, recortado y desvirtuado, es un somnífero para niños pequeños, que ha empalagado a generaciones de lectores adultos y traicionado, en la letra y en el espíritu, a la pluma del maravilloso Charles Perrault (Francia 1628-1703), maestro del misterio y el humor negro.

The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince. A good fairy, knowing the princess would be frightened if alone when she wakes, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace and forest asleep, to awaken when the princess does.

A widower marries a haughty woman with two daughters of her own. The woman and the two daughters hate the man's gentle and beautiful daughter, who they call Cinderella, and treat her cruelly. Cinderella is always assigned to do the chores around the house and forced to sleep in the attic.

"La Bella Durmiente del Bosque" de Charles Perrault es un cuento de hadas clásico que cuenta la historia de una bella princesa condenada a dormir durante cien años. Después de ser pinchada con un huso en su decimoquinto cumpleaños, la princesa y todo su reino caen en un sueño profundo. Con el paso de los años, el castillo se llena de espinas y el mundo exterior lo olvida. Finalmente, un príncipe desafía los peligros del bosque encantado y despierta a la princesa con un beso, rompiendo la maldición y devolviendo al reino su antigua gloria.

A woodcutter complained of his poor lot. Jupiter (or alternatively, a tree spirit or fairy) granted him three wishes. The woodcutter went home, and his wife persuaded him to put off the wishing until the next day, after he had thought, but while sitting by the fire, he wished for sausages. His wife taxed him for his folly, and angry, he wished for the sausages to attach to her nose. Finally, they agreed to use the last wish to take the sausages off her nose, leaving them no better off than before (apart from having gained the sausages).

An extremely fortunate and wealthy king lives with his beautiful wife and daughter. The source of the king's riches is his prized, marvelous donkey whose droppings are gold. The king's wife is struck by an illness and dies, but not before making her husband promise not to remarry except to a woman whose beauty and attributes equal hers. The king grieves for a lengthy period, but is finally persuaded to seek another wife. It becomes clear that the only woman who fits the promise is his daughter.

In the version by Charles Perrault, a fairy grants an ugly prince named Riquet (Ricky) the gift of intelligence and the ability to confer wit upon the one he loves the most. At birth, Prince Riquet has a small patch of hair on his head, leading to his nickname "of the tuft".

Once upon a time there lived a woodcutter and his wife; they had seven children, all boys. The eldest was but ten years old, and the youngest only seven. People were astonished that the woodcutter had had so many children in such a short time, but his wife was very fond of children, and never had less than two at a time.

"Master Cat, or Puss in Boots" is one of the most famous fairy tales of the French writer Charles Perrault. The fairy tale "Puss in Boots" was written in the 17th century, but it remains a favorite of children even several centuries later.

Le prince Riquet est né mal formé, mais doté d'une grande intelligence. Une fée qui assistait à sa naissance lui fit le don de pouvoir donner autant d'esprit qu'il en possède à la personne qu'il aimerait le mieux. Justement, le Prince Riquet tombe éperdument amoureux d'une jeune princesse de grande beauté, mais aussi d'une grande bêtise. Le Prince lui fait don d'avoir de l'esprit en échange d'une promesse de mariage. Mais la princesse saura-t-elle tenir sa promesse ?