Peronella

{{For|an extinct genus of sea sponges|Peronidella}}

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Peronella is a fairy tale{{cite book |last1=Ashmead |first1=D. |title=The Child's Own Book of Standard Fairy Tales: Containing Aladdin, Cinderella, Etc |date=1868 |publisher=[D.] Ashmead |pages=374–379 |edition=original scanned from Harvard University |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grsWAAAAYAAJ&dq=peronella+fairy+tale&pg=PA376 |language=en}} or fable{{cite book |last1=Fénelon |first1=François de Salignac de La Mothe- |title=Tales and Fables, in French and English. Written originally for the instruction of a young prince ... translated by the late D. Bellamy ... A new edition, with twenty-seven plates [some engraved by Charles Grignion]. |date=1789 |publisher=J. Deighton |pages=292–297 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVtN-h6yy5oC&dq=%22peronella%22+french&pg=PA45 |accessdate=7 February 2020 |language=en}} that is considered a traditional French tale.{{cite book |last1=Lansing |first1=Marion Florence |title=Fairy Tales |date=1907 |publisher=Ginn |page=179 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oIYSAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22peronella%22+fairy+tale+origin&pg=PA179 |accessdate=7 February 2020 |language=en}} Peronella is a pretty country lass who exchanges places with an old wizened queen, and receives the homage due to royalty, but gladly takes back her rags and beauty.{{cite book |last1=Brewer |first1=Ebenezer Cobham |title=Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama |date=2004 |publisher=The Minerva Group, Inc. |isbn=978-1-4102-1335-8 |page=190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iyk7ERe8fgC&dq=peronella+fairy+tale&pg=PA190 |language=en}}[https://archive.org/details/fairybook00unse/page/258/mode/2up The fairy-book]. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1836. pp. 258-263.