Louise de Bossigny explained

Louise de Bossigny
Honorific Suffix:	comtesse d'Auneuil
Pseudonym:	Madame la comtesse D. L.
Occupation:	Author
Language:	French
Citizenship:	French
Genre:	Fairy tale
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Notableworks:	La Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed)
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Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil, (? – 10 January 1700) was a French salonnière and author of fairy tales.^{[1] [2]}

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."^[3] 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.^[4] 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

• La Tiranie des fées détruite (1702)
• L'Origine des cornes, ou l'Inconstance punie (1702)
• La Princesse des Pretintailles (1702)
• L'Origine du lansquenet (1703)
• Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier (1709)

External links

• Works by Louise de Bossigny Auneuil at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
• La Tyrannie des fées détruite in Le Cabinet des fées at Internet Archive
• Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier at Internet Archive
• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Folktales and fairy tales: traditions and texts from around the world . 2016 . Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO . 978-1-61069-253-3 . Duggan . Anne E. . Second . Santa Barbara, California . 84 . Haase . Donald . Callow . Helen.
2. Book: The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales . OUP Oxford . 2015 . 9780191004162 . Zipes . Jack . 35.
3. Book: Mayer, Charles-Joseph . 1786 . Notice des Auteurs . https://archive.org/details/lecabinetdesfe37maye/page/48 . Mayer . Charles-Joseph . Le Cabinet des fées . 37 . Paris . Barde, Manget & Compagnie . 1786 . 51.
4. Book: Neemann, Harold . 2008 . Auneuil, Louise de Bossigny, Comtesse d' (d. c. 1700) . https://books.google.com/books?id=Jdx2fhPM1XIC&pg=PA82 . Haase . Donald . The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F . 1 . Westport, CT . Greenwood Press . 2008 . 82. 9780313334429 .