On the Literary Origins of Folkloric Fairy Tales: A Comparison between Madame d’Aulnoy’s “Finette Cendron” and Frank Bourisaw’s “Belle Finette”

Authors

Charlotte Trinquet

Abstract

Mme d’Aulnoy’s “Finette Cendron” underlies an American oral telling, “Belle Finette.” Since no trace of the tale in this form exists in French oral tradition, the author speculates that still-undocumented chapbooks together with motifs familiar from other Western European fairy tales provided the raw material for its Missouri teller.

Recommended Citation

Trinquet, Charlotte. "On the Literary Origins of Folkloric Fairy Tales: A Comparison between Madame d’Aulnoy’s “Finette Cendron” and Frank Bourisaw’s “Belle Finette”." Marvels & Tales 21.1 (2007). Web. <https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol21/iss1/2>.