Madame d aulnoy biography of mahatma gandhi
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Madame d'Aulnoy
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"FOR nearly two centuries, Madame d'Aulnoy's fairy tales have been the delight of universal childhood. Madame d aulnoy biography of mahatma gandhiBut though she did not intend to please none save childish minds by such fictions as those of "The Blue Bird" and " The Goldenhaired Beauty," they can no more be included in the food which fullgrown minds require , than they can be called novels . They belong to fairyland a wonderful region, which the novel dare not enter. A real novel, however, Madame d'Aulnoy wrote, an historical romance, entitled " Hippolyte, Count of Douglas,” which appeared at the close of the seventeenth century, and was re- printed so late as the first years of this. Even in the second year ofthe grim Republic, a bookseller of Rouen found it in his heart to issue forth an edition of this aristocratic tale, which appeared in the characteristic Rue de l |