Old French Fairy Tales: Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Blondine, Bonne-Biche and Beau-Minon; Good Little Henry; Princess Rosette — French fairy tales written by a Russian countess for her own grandchildren. Ségur was born Rostopchine in Moscow, married unhappily in France, and began writing in her late fifties. The tales are sweeter than Perrault's and much stricter, and the punishments are aimed squarely at the vices of well-off children. Forty-two plates of French garden life and theatre by Watteau and Renoir, from 1701 to 1894, run alongside these tales of enchanted gardens and moral reckoning.
Blondine, Bonne-Biche and Beau-Minon; Good Little Henry; Princess Rosette — French fairy tales written by a Russian countess for her own grandchildren. Ségur was born Rostopchine in Moscow, married unhappily in France, and began writing in her late fifties. The tales are sweeter than Perrault's a...
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The Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874) was born Sophie Rostopchine in Moscow, daughter of the governor who burned the city before Napoleon, and came to France at nineteen. She began writing in her late fifties, for her grandchildren, and became the household author of French childhood.
The Comtesse de Ségur (1799–1874) was born Sophie Rostopchine in Moscow, daughter of the governor who burned the city before Napoleon, and came to France at nineteen. She began writing in her late fifties, for her grandchildren, and became the household author of French childhood.
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