Aurore and Aimée
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Aurore and Aimée is a French literary fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Like her better known tale Beauty and the Beast, it is among the first fairy tales deliberately written for children.[1]
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Folk tale | |
Name | Aurore and Aimée |
Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 480 |
Country | France |
It draws on traditional fairy tale motifs from the Aarne–Thompson tale type 480, the kind and the unkind girls; as is common in those tales, the abused daughter finds herself in a new place, where, after a test, a kindly woman rewards her.[1] Folk tales of this type include "Diamonds and Toads", "Shita-kiri Suzume", "Mother Hulda", "The Three Heads of the Well", "Father Frost", "The Three Little Men in the Wood", "The Enchanted Wreath", "The Old Witch" and "The Two Caskets".[2] Another literary variant is "The Three Fairies".[1]