Princess Rosette
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Princess Rosette is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.
The queen and her ladies-in-waiting consult with the hermit.
The extravagant carriage driven by the peacocks. Illustration from Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book (1890).
Johann August Apel
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Johann August Apel was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born and died in Leipzig.
Princess Rosette
…stage by James Planché, as part of his Fairy Extravaganza. He used the tale as basis for his play The King of the Peacocks. It was retold in German by Johann August Apel as "König Pfau" and included in the first volume of the Gespensterbuch (1810). The tale was also translated into Norwegian, as Prindsesse Rosette, et…
Johann August Apel