Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Comtesse d'Aulnoy

Japanese: オーノア夫人 - オーノアふじん（英語表記）Marie‐Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville,comtesse d’Aulnoy

Around 1650-1705
A French writer of fairy tales. At the age of 16, she married an aristocrat nearly 50 years old. In an attempt to get rid of her gambling and dissolute husband, she and her mother soon falsely accused him of lèse majesté, but the conspiracy was discovered instead, and she fled France, wandering from place to place. She returned to Paris in 1685 and opened a salon, while also displaying her literary talent by publishing tales of the court such as Notes of the Court of Spain (1690), travelogues, and an action-packed love story, Hippolyte (1690). Her eight volumes of fairy tales, published between 1696 and 1699, including The Fairy Tale, were a huge hit with adults as well as children, and together with Charles Perrault's collection of fairy tales, they created a craze for fairy tales.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1650ころ‐1705
フランスの童話作家。16歳で50歳近い貴族と結婚。しかし賭博好きで放蕩者の夫を追い払おうと，まもなく母親と共に夫を偽りの不敬罪で告発するが，逆に陰謀が露見し，フランスを逃げ各地を転々とした。1685年パリに戻った彼女はサロンを開く一方，《スペイン宮廷の記録》(1690)などの宮廷秘話，旅行記や，波瀾に富んだ恋愛小説《イポリット》(1690)を発表し，文学的才能を示した。96年から99年にかけて出版された《仙女物語》をはじめとする8巻の童話集は，子どもばかりかおとなにも大好評で，シャルル･ペローの童話集と共に仙女物語の流行を生んだ。

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