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French literary fairy tales are loaded with fairies. The most famous examples are Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. Diamonds and Toads (another Perrault story) also has a fairy in it.

Madame d'Aulnoy is a great source of fairy tales with actual fairies - pretty much every fairy tale written by her has at least one fairy. (The only one that doesn't seem to have them is The Story of Pretty Goldilocks.) Her stories contain both good fairies and evil fairies. Particularly good examples include The Imp Prince, The Little Good Mouse, The Blue Bird, The Benevolent Frog, The Green Serpent, and Finette Cendron.

Other French literary fairy tales can be found in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. Among them include stories such as Fairy Gifts, Heart of Ice, An Impossible Enchantment, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, A Fairy's Blunder, and The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana.

This book is an excellent source. I don't own it, but it's got lots of fairy tales with fairies. Be warned that some of the stories are kinda violent. If you like fairy tales with actual fairies, I recommend it!

Italian fairy tales sometimes feature fairies. Some of the ones I know with fairies are The Goat-faced Girl, The Three Fairies, The Three Citrons, Paperarello, and The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird.

They also pop up in other nations' fairy tales, such as The Fairy of the Dawn, a Romanian fairy tale.