The Magic of Saint-Cloud by Mme d’Aulnoy

Author(s)

  • Sophie Raynard

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.539

Keywords:

Mme d’Aulnoy, Promenade littéraire, Ekphrasis, Mise en abyme, Représentation de l’enchantement

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how Mme d’Aulnoy managed to prepare her readers for the “marvelous” aspects of her fairy tales by framing them within a narrative set in the royal domain of Saint-Cloud. Through the use of specific textual images such as mise en abyme and ekphrasis, and by playing on the enchanting reputation of Saint-Cloud, the storyteller also contributed to the creation of the magic of Saint-Cloud, much like the artists and craftsmen who accomplished this architectural, pictorial, and aesthetic masterpiece. This article will lexplore this by comparing fictional and non-fictional texts that describe Saint-Cloud during its peak.

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Author Biography

  • Sophie Raynard
    Sophie Raynard is an Associate Professor of French at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. She specializes in women’s 17th-century French Literature. She published La Seconde préciosité. Floraison des conteuses de 1690 à 1756. (Biblio 17, 2002), as well as several articles on the poetics of early contes de fées and on the various connections between the conteuses, preciosity, and libertinism. She also served as the guest editor for a special issue on fairy tales with the Romanic Review: Approaches to the Literary Fairy Tales (recently released). She edited a volume on collected biographies, The Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy-Tale Writers that is coming out with SUNY Press, served as a coeditor for another upcoming volume on the fairy tales’ paratexts with SUNY Press. She is now at the final stages of writing her second monograph on the poetics of early contes de fées through paratexts. She regularly participates and presents in international conferences on fairy-tales and 17th-18th century French Literature.

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Published

2010-12-08

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2010): The magic of the image: textual and visual images in fairy tales

Section

I. Aux origines du conte de fées français

License

Copyright (c) 2010 Sophie Raynard

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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How to Cite

Raynard, S. (2010) “The Magic of Saint-Cloud by Mme d’Aulnoy”, RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 4(2), pp. 52–76. doi:10.18352/relief.539.
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