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The Borzoi book of French folk tales / selected and edited by Paul Delarue ; translated by Austin E. Fife ; illustrated by Warren Chappell.

by Delarue, Paul, editor.

New York : A.A. Knopf, 1956.

Tales -- France.

Fairy tales -- France.

Folklore -- France.

xix, 402 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

The three May peaches -- Jean, the soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's daughter -- The giant Goulaffre -- The white dove -- The Devil and the two little girls -- The story of John-of-the-Bear and the story of Cricket -- King Fortunatus's golden wig -- Father Roquelaure -- The lost children -- The godchild of the fairy in the tower -- Petit Jean and the frog -- The gilded fox -- The love of three oranges -- The doctor and his pupil -- Little Johnny Sheep-Dung -- The three dogs and the dragon -- The self-propelled carriage -- The old woman in the well -- The little girl's sieve -- Father Big-Nose -- The serpent and the grape-grower's daughter -- The three stags -- The miller's three sons -- The marriage of Mother Crumb -- Father Louison and the Mother of the Wind -- Grain-of-Millet -- The little sardine -- The story of Grandmother -- The sharpshooter -- Georgic and Merlin -- The little blacksmith -- La Ramée and the phantom -- The woman with three children -- The kid -- How Kiot-Jean married Jacqueline -- Half-Man -- The three blue stones -- The journey to Toulouse of the animals that had colds -- The lion that learned to swing ; The fox that learned how to pick cherries ; The wolf that learned how to split wood -- The sow and the wolf -- The three pullets -- The goat and her kids -- Brother Mazaraud -- A lovely dream and a fateful journey -- Half-Chick -- Turlendu -- The fantastic adventures of Cadiou the Tailor -- The miraculous doctor -- The mole of Jarnages -- The shepherd who got the king's daughter -- Simple-minded Jeanne -- Jean-Baptiste's swaps -- Circular tale.

Here is that brilliant country of the imagination where devils and giants, princes and kings, fairies and dragons work their sorcery and sortilege; good and evil is reduced to its simplest terms; and the stories, whether of the supernatural, animals or human fallibility, have an enduring enchantment for all ages. Some 54 have been selected from their often many variants and in the foot-notes their affinity with Grimm, Perrault and other legendary sources is traced.

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