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...considered contes by the volume's editor, Genevieve Patard. The edition offers a "modernized," "corrected," and "actualized" version of these texts, suppressing capital letters and "reorganizing" paragraphs and punctuation in order to make them more "coherent" and "less disturbing" for "modern" use (49-50). Since capital letters, punctuation, and organization of paragraphs are often semantically meaningful, the scholarly reader might object to this editorial decision. The first of de Murat's works reedited is the Contes de fees: Dediez a Son Altesse Serenissime Madame la Princesse Douairiere de Conty. Par Mad. La Comtesse de M***, published by Claude Barbin (also Jean La Fontaine's, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's, and Charles Perrault's editor) in 1698. (A photographic reproduction of the original edition is accessible on the Web site of the Bibliotheque Nationale [BN] in Paris). Patard's edition reproduces the dedicatory letter followed by the complete texts of the three unframed tales Le Parfait Amour, Anguillette, and Jeune et Belle.

De Murat's second volume, the Nouveaux Contes des Fees, was published in the same year by Barbin. The...

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