French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy
The Dolphin is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy.[1]
Another literary tale of this type is Giambattista Basile's older Peruonto.[2] A folk variant is the French Half-Man.[3]
- ^ Marie Catherine Baronne D'Aulnoy. "The Dolphin" The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy'Miss Annie Macdonell and Miss Lee, translators. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892.
- ^ Jack Zipes, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm, p 100, ISBN 0-393-97636-X
- ^ Paul Delarue, The Borzoi Book of French Folk-Tales, p 389-90, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York 1956