Louise de Bossigny

Louise de Bossigny

comtesse d'Auneuil
Died(1700-01-10)10 January 1700
Pen nameMadame la comtesse D. L.
OccupationAuthor
LanguageFrench
CitizenshipFrench
GenreFairy tale
Notable worksLa Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed)
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Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil, (? – 10 January 1700) was a French salonnière and author of fairy tales.[1][2]

Life

She married the Comte d'Auneuil and established her standing in Paris and at court with a salon that was "open to all the beaux esprits and to all the women who wrote."[3] Her fairy tale collection, La Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed), playfully alludes to the pre-existing genre of fairy tales popular in her time.[4] Her final work, Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier (The Knights Errant and the Familiar Genie), is divided into two sections, the first evoking chivalric romances and the second presenting a brief sequence of tales purportedly translated from Arabic.[4]

Works

  • La Tiranie des fées détruite (1702)[1]
  • L'Origine des cornes, ou l'Inconstance punie (1702)
  • La Princesse des Pretintailles (1702)
  • L'Origine du lansquenet (1703)
  • Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier (1709)[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Duggan, Anne E.; Haase, Donald; Callow, Helen, eds. (2016). Folktales and fairy tales: traditions and texts from around the world (Second ed.). Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-61069-253-3.
  2. ^ Zipes, Jack, ed. (2015). The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. OUP Oxford. p. 35. ISBN 9780191004162.
  3. ^ Mayer, Charles-Joseph (1786). "Notice des Auteurs". In Mayer, Charles-Joseph (ed.). Le Cabinet des fées. Vol. 37. Paris: Barde, Manget & Compagnie. p. 51.
  4. ^ a b Neemann, Harold (2008). "Auneuil, Louise de Bossigny, Comtesse d' (d. c. 1700)". In Haase, Donald (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780313334429.