[Footnote 8: Paris: de l'imprimerie de Jean Baptiste Coignard, imprimeur du Roy et de l'Academie Francoise, rue Saint Jacques, la Bible d'or, 1691. The Bibliotheque Nationale and the Arsenal possess copies of this duodecimo of 58 pages. One of the copies is inscribed _Donne par Lautheur_ 1691. (Lefevre. _Contes de Charles Perrault_, p. 167. Paris, _s. a._)] [Footnote 9: Paul de Saint Victor, _Les Contes des Fees_, in _Hommes et Dieux_, p. 475. Paris, 1883.] [Footnote 10: _Les Fees du Moyen Age_, p. 101. Paris, 1843.] [Footnote 11: Recueil, 1694. _Peau d'Ane_, p. 50. _Les Souhaits Ridicules_, p. 93. _Griselidis_, p. 233.] [Footnote 12: Coignard Veuve. Paris.] [Footnote 13: _Dialogues des Morts par feu Messire Francois de Salignac de la Motte Fenelon_, vol. i. p. 23. Paris, 1718. 'L'autre n'est qu'un amas de contes de vieilles.' Achilles thus anticipates Gerland's _Altgriechische Maerchen in der Odyssee_.] [Footnote 14: Contes de Ma Mere L'Oye is the title on the frontispiece. The term occurs in Loret, _La Muse Historique_. (Lettre V. 11 Juin, 1650.) 'Mais le cher motif de leur joye, Comme un conte de la Mere Oye, Se trouvant fabuleux et faux, Ils deviendront tous bien penauts.' ] [Footnote 15: In her _Moralite_, Mlle. L'Heritier says,-- 'Cent fois ma nourrice ou ma mie M'ont fait ce beau recit le soir pres des tisons, Je n'y fais qu'ajouter un peu de broderie.' ] [Footnote 16: The _Fables d'animaux_ are probably even older than _contes_ _Diamonds and Toads_. A Mouse and a Frog, as well as the Old Woman who survives as _La Fee_, take part in the tale as the Kaffirs tell it in _The Story of Five Heads_, in Theal's _Kaffir Folk Lore_, pp. 48, 49. The Kaffir story slides into a form of _Beauty and the Beast_. By some unexplained accident a story of Mlle. L'Heritier's _L'Adroite Princesse_ slipped into editions of Perrault's _Contes_, in 1721, if not earlier, and holds its place even now.] [Footnote 17: _Histoires ou Contes du Tems Passe, avec des Moralites._ A Paris. Chez Claude Barbin, sur le second peron de la Sainte-Chapelle; au Palais. Avec Privilege de sa Majeste, 1697. In 12o. 230 pp. Bibliotheque de M. Cousin, 9677. The frontispiece, by Clouzier, represents an old woman spinning, and telling tales to a man, a girl, a little boy, and a cat which, from its broad and intelligent grin, naturalists believe to be of the Cheshire breed. On a placard is written CONTES DEMA MERE LOYE. A copy, modified, of the engraving is printed on the cover of M. Charles Deulin's _Les Contes de Ma Mere L'Oye avant Perrault_. (Paris, Dentu, 1879.) The design holds its own, with various slight alterations, in the English chap-books of _Mother Goose's Tales_, even in the present century. There is a vastly 'embroidered' reminiscence of Clouzier in the edition edited by M. Ch. Giraud, for Perrin of Lyon, 1865.]