POPULAR TALES
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INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE
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Richard M. Dorson
Editorial Board
Issachar Ben Ami
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POPULAR TALES
[Charles Perrault]
Edited by
Andrew Lang
ARNO PRESS
A New York Times Company
New York / 1977
Editorial Supervision: LUCILLE MAIORCA
Reprint Edition 1977 by Arno Press Inc.
Reprinted from a copy in
The Princeton University Library
INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE
ISBN for complete set: 0-405-10077-9
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Popular tales.
(International folklore)
Translation of selected tales from Contes.
Reprint of the 1888 ed. published by theClarendon Press, Oxford.
I. Lang, Andrew,1844-1912. II. Title. III. Series.
PQ1877.A251977 398.2 77-70607
ISBN 0-405-10118-X
PERRAULT'S POPULAR TALES
LANG
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PERRAULT'S
POPULAR TALES
EDITED
FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS, WITH
INTRODUCTION, &c.
BY
ANDREW LANG, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
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PREFACE.
This edition of the stories of Perrault isintended partly as an introduction to the study of Popular Tales ingeneral. The text of the prose has been collated by M. Alfred Bauerwith that of the first edition (Paris, 1697), a book which probablycannot be found in England. I have to thank M. Bauer for the kindand minute care he has bestowed on his task. We have tried to restorethe original text of 1697, with its spelling, punctuation, use ofcapital letters, and so forth. One might have compared the text ofPerrault's prose tales, as published in a book in 1697, with theiroriginal form in Moetjens's Recueil or Magazine. Unluckily theBritish Museum only possesses the earlier volumes of the Recueil, inwhich the less important stories, those in verse, were first published.The Text of the tales in Verse has been collated, by myself and Mrs.Ogilby, with that of the Recueil. The Paris editions of 1694 and 1695I have never seen. In his 'Contes en Prose de Charles Perrault'(Jouaust, Paris, 1876), M. Paul