The Fairy Tellers

7 hrs. 24 min.

Language Russian

Author Klair Pollard

Narrator Sonya Platoshkina

Description

France in the age of the “Sun King,” Louis XIV. Far from the intrigue, harassment, and licentiousness of Versailles, a small Parisian salon brings together fashionable ladies and… they retell ancient stories, weaving details of their own lives into them. This is how the famous genre appears—one that the salon’s hostess, Marie d’Auhois, will call “magic fairy tales.”

Marie’s fate is not simple: when she was very young, she was married off to a cruel old man; after a notorious scandal, she ended up in prison… And then—almost unbelievably—she received permission to return and open a literary salon right in the very center of the capital.

The celebrated Charles Perrault visits Marie as well. His influence at court has waned, his beloved wife has died, and now all that remains for him is to tell fairy tales to impatient listeners… But the salon’s free spirit does not please the authorities (or perhaps even the king himself), and they send a spy…

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