Riquet with the Tuft
"Riquet à la Houppe" (English: Riquet with the Tuft) is a French literary fairy tale written by Charles Perrault that tells the story of a gnome-like prince with a tuft of hair on his head who is capable of conferring wit upon the one he loves the best. The tale was first published in 1697 by Barbin in Paris in a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault called Histoires ou contes du temps passé.
Although the tale is similar to the Latin "Cupid and Psyche", Perrault probably consulted a version of Riquet published with the same title in 1695 in Catherine Bernard's novel, Inès de Cordoue. Unlike Bernard's version however, Perrault's tale ends happily, and neither version is considered to have its source in folklore. Perrault may have also known a similar tale called "Lo Cattenaccio" ("The Padlock") in Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone.[1][2][3] In 1908, the Pathé-Frères film company produced a cinematic version of the tale under the direction of Albert Capellani.[4]
References
- ^ Barchilon, Jacques, and Henry Pettit. (1960). The Authentic Mother Goose: Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes. Denver, CO: Allan Swallow. p. 15.
- ^ Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. (2001). Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-11567-2. pp. 64–65.
- ^ Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. The Classic Fairy Tales. Oxford University Press, 1974. ISBN 0-19-211559-6. pp. 21–24
- ^ Haase, Donald. (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Press. p. 740.
External links
- Riquet à la Houppe Perrault's original French text
- Ricky of the Tuft English translation
- Tales of Charles Perrault
- Template:Fr Riquet à la Houppe, audio version
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