![]() ![]() ![]() It remains a mystery, and even the best historians of French literature have never been able to detect what Mme d’Aulnoy did. Otherwise, Mme d’Aulnoy would occasionally return to Paris, but there are actually no records or clear evidence about what she did during this period of her life. During the next thirteen years, she traveled a great deal and allegedly spent time in England, Flanders, and Spain. Once she was released from prison, she temporarily entered a convent for refuge, which she left in 1672. By 1670, Mme d’Aulnoy was pardoned because her role in the conspiracy could not be proved. Forced to marry as a teenager, she joined with her mother in 1669 in a plot to assassinate her dissolute husband. ![]() For those readers who do not believe that fairies are real, they should think twice, for the extraordinary Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Comtesse d’Aulnoy (1650–1705) did not only invent the term fairy tale ( conte de fees) and create tales about fairies, she was a fearless fairy herself. ![]()
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