Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition

List of Illustrations Translators' Note and Acknowledgments Introduction TALES Charles Baudelaire -- Fairies' Gifts Alphonse Daudet -- The Fairies of France Catulle Mendès -- Dreaming Beauty -- Isolina / Isolin -- The Way to Heaven -- An Unsuitable Guest -- The Three Good Fairies -- The Last Fairy -- The Lucky Find -- The Wish Granted, Alas! Jules Lemaître -- The Suitors of Princess Mimi -- Liette's Notions -- On the Margins of Perrault's Fairy Tales: The White Rabbit and the Four-Leaf Clover Paul Arène -- The Ogresses Jules Ricard -- Fairy Morgane's Tales: Nocturne II Marcel Schwob -- Bluebeard's Little Wife -- The Green She-Devil -- Cice -- Mandosiane Willy -- Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned Henri de Régnier -- The Living Door Knocker Rachilde -- The Mortis Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen -- Sleeping Beauty Didn't Wake Up Jean Lorrain -- Princess of the Red Lilies -- Princess Snowflower -- Mandosiane in Captivity Renée Vivien -- Prince Charming Albert Mockel -- The Story of the Prince of Valandeuse -- The Pleasant Surprise Pierre Veber -- The Last Fairy Anatole France -- The Seven Wives of Bluebeard -- The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin Emile Bergerat -- The 28-Kilometer Boots -- Cinderella Arrives by Automobile Guillaume Apollinaire -- Cinderella Continued, or the Rat and the Six Lizards Claude Cahun -- Cinderella, the Humble and Haughty Child Bibliography Biographical Notes