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xx This first series, in two small parts, was dedicated to "Madame," as she was called, the Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, second wife of Philip, Duke of Orleans.

The second series, entitled, "Les Fées a la Mode," contains—

These stories were intermixed with three novels,—"Don Gabriel Ponce de Leon," "Don Ferdinand de Toledo," and "Le Nouveau Gentilhomme Bourgeois,"—the personages in which were supposed to relate the Fairy Tales for the amusement of each other, as I have previously mentioned. We have no data by which to arrive at any knowledge of the exact chronological order in which these Fairy Tales were written; but I venture to think that, by preserving that in which they are printed in the "Cabinet des Fées," I have not greatly departed from it.