User blog:NibiruMul/Found an extremely obscure fairy tale...

Several months ago, I found a truly obscure fairy tale, and today, I read the entirety of it for the first time. It's called Princess Lionette and Prince Coquerico. It's by the same woman who wrote Princess Camion. The story is extremely long - it is over 25,000 words long. I'm guessing it might be one of the longest fairy tales of all.

The story is about a princess raised in the mountains by an old couple. She is found among a pair of lions, thus she is called Lionette. She has a necklace given to her by the fairy Tigreline. One day, she meets a prince named Coquerico, who was raised in opulence by the fairy Cornue and left to see the world. Because Lionette loses the necklace, Cornue is able to turn her into a lioness, and she later turns Coquerico into a rooster for disobeying her. The rest of the story involves things such as a model of the universe and enchanted flowers, Like most fairy tales of its time, it was written for adults. It is definitely not suitable for children, as it is extremely violent and some parts get kinda creepy (Coquerico's evil mother, after abandoning him, goes off to marry Lionette's father, thus making Lionette and Coquerico stepsister and stepbrother). Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading it. There is a happy ending, of course, and it's really cool.

I posted the story on Scribd about an hour ago. Here it is: https://www.scribd.com/doc/251185672/Princess-Lionette-and-Prince-Coquerico

As far as I know, this version is the only English translation of the story. I might do a community OC based on this one day.