The term ‘fairy tale’ is a translation of ‘conte des fées’, first coined by storyteller and noblewoman Madame d'Aulnoy, one of the women who helped popularize the tales that many are brought up with. Madame D'Aulnoy. They wrote in a variety of genres, from poems to plays, but the fairy tale lent itself particularly well to this style of narration. When she published the first known French fairy tale, The Island of Happiness, within a novel, she also coined the name of the genre. Fairy tale decorations in Colmar, France.

Source: The Local August 28, 2017 13:52 UTC