French Folktales

French folklore includes fables, fairy tales and legends of peoples living in France and much else. Most oral French tales were collected after the mid-1800s.

Many splendid French tales come from older sources and foreign sources, for example from the Italian Giambattista Basile's The Pentamerone. Basile recorded and adapted tales that are believed to have been orally transmitted around Crete and Venice. His work contains earlier versions of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel.

We hope that you will enjoy the tales  we have, compiled for you here