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Excerpt from Fairy Legends of the French Provinces It is not possible, in an introductory page or two, to say anything of all that the study of such stories and of their transmission has added to the sum of modern learning, nor of the light they throw on peasant character; but it is only justice to readers who approach these studies from this point of View, with a more or less scientific in terest in studies of folk-lore, to state the sources whence the tales in this collection have been trans lated, and to attest the fidelity of the translation. Of these stories, - derived from the French prov inces or, in one or two cases, colonies, - the first part, extending to page 192, have been selected and translated from the pages of the admirable French folk-lore journal, M lusine, of which the first volume appeared in 1878, the second in 1884s and 1885, the third in 1886 and 1887; the remaining stories have been selected and trans lated from Paul S billot's Contes des Provinces de la France (paris, Scrupulous care has been taken to preserve a note of the sources of the stories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www. forgottenbooks. com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. | Fairy Legends of the French Provinces (Classic Reprint) by Mrs. Martha Carey, Paperback | Indigo Chapters