Louise de Bossigny
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Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil, (? – 10 January 1700) was a French salonnière and author of fairy tales.{{Cite book |title=Folktales and fairy tales: traditions and texts from around the world |date=2016 |publisher=Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-253-3 |editor-last=Duggan |editor-first=Anne E. |edition=Second |location=Santa Barbara, California |pages=84 |editor-last2=Haase |editor-first2=Donald |editor-last3=Callow |editor-first3=Helen}}{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2015 |isbn=9780191004162 |editor-last=Zipes |editor-first=Jack |pages=35}}
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."
{{cite book |last=Mayer |first=Charles-Joseph |year=1786 |chapter=Notice des Auteurs |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/lecabinetdesfe37maye/page/48 |editor-last=Mayer |editor-first=Charles-Joseph |title=Le Cabinet des fées |url=https://archive.org/details/lecabinetdesfe37maye |volume=37 |location=Paris |publisher=Barde, Manget & Compagnie |publication-date=1786 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lecabinetdesfe37maye/page/51 51]}} 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.{{cite book |last=Neemann |first=Harold |year=2008 |chapter=Auneuil, Louise de Bossigny, Comtesse d' (d. c. 1700) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jdx2fhPM1XIC&pg=PA82 |editor-last=Haase |editor-first=Donald |title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jdx2fhPM1XIC |volume=1 |location=Westport, CT |publisher=Greenwood Press |publication-date=2008 |page=82|isbn=9780313334429 }} 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.
Works
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External links
- [https://data.bnf.fr/en/documents-by-rdt/11889567/70/page1 Works by Louise de Bossigny Auneuil] at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
- [https://archive.org/details/lecabinetdesfe05maye/page/200 La Tyrannie des fées détruite] in Le Cabinet des fées at Internet Archive
- [https://archive.org/details/leschevalierserr00auneuoft/page/n3 Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier] at Internet Archive
- [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030685575;view=1up;seq=7 Partial translations of The Knights Errant and The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed] in a volume of work conflated with Madame d'Aulnoy's at HathiTrust
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Category:Collectors of fairy tales
Category:17th-century French writers
Category:17th-century French women writers
Category:18th-century French writers