Princess Belle-Etoile
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Princess Belle-Etoile is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Her source for the tale was Ancilotto, King of Provino, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola.
The children of Queen Blondine and sister Brunette picked up by a corsair after seven days at sea; illustration by Walter Crane
Chéri saves a dove from drowning
The Sisters who Envied Their Cadette is a fairy tale collected by French orientalist Antoine Galland and published in his translation of The Arabian Nights, a compilation of Arabic and Persian fairy tales.
Princess Parizade carries a keg of the Golden Water. Gouache painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1858).