Madame d'Aulnoy, or Marie-Catherine Le Jumel Barneville (Eure, c. 1650-Paris, 1705), was a poet and novelist, but is remembered for introducing the French nobility taste for fairy tales. His works include Contes de fées and Les Fées à la mode (of which we publish a selection), which reached as much acceptance as the tales of Perrault himself. He also wrote sentimental novels and a memoir on the courts of Spain (1690) and England (1695), countries where he fled to regain the king's favor after he discovered his involvement in a palace intrigue. He spent the last years of his life in Paris, a city that maintained a busy salon.