In the second half of the 19th century, Jacques Offenbach created operetta with witty and cynical works such as Orphée aux enfers, as well as the opera Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ; Charles Gounod scored a massive success with Faust ; and Bizet composed Carmen, which, once audiences learned to accept its blend of Romanticism and realism, became the most popular of all opéra comiques.

* Contes de Pantruche et d ' ailleurs ( 1897 )

After attempts at careers in medicine ( which he gave up owing to a distaste for dissections ), law, drawing, English and piano, he became one of the first Romantic writers, with his first collection of poems, Contes d ' Espagne et d ' Italie ( 1829, Tales of Spain and Italy ).

* Contes d ' Espagne et d ' Italie, 1829

French author of dozens of flagellation novels including: Nouveax Contes de Fouet ( 1907 ), The Conjugal Whip ( Le fouet conjugal ) ( 1908 ), Le Fouet dominateur ou L ' École des vierges, Les Mystéres du Fouet ( both 1909 ), The Humiliations of Miss Madge ( 1912 ), Les Malheurs de Colette ( 1914 ), Visites fantastiques au pays du fouet ( 1922 ), Le Precepteur ( 1923 ), Memories d ' une Fouettee ( 1924 ), et al.

In his Contes bizarre d ' Orleans, the latter says that the Americans picked up the common phrase " Quelle canule ", but they were usually shivering so hard when they said it that it came out with the " l " hardened into a guttural stop – thence a " k ".

* Suzanne Lebeau, Contes d ' enfants réels

fr: Les Contes d ' Avonlea

* Contes et légendes des Oubykhs, 1957, publié par l ' Institut d ' Ethnologie

* Contes lazes, 1957, publié par l ' Institut d ' Ethnologie

* Madame d ' Aulnoy followed suit with a three-volume collection simply entitled Contes de Fées Fairy Tales, and then her Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fées à la Mode (" New Tales or Fairies In Fashion ") ( 1698 – 1702 ).

* Contes et fables indiennes, de Bidpaï et de Lokman ; traduites d ' Ali-Tchelebi ben Saleh, auteur turc.

* Les Contes de Fées: The Literary Fairy Tales of France: 17th-century Paris salons of Mme d ' Aulnoy, the comtesse de Murat and others by Terri Windling.

* Contes d ' Outre-Mer et d ' autres mondes ( 1921 )

Bonynge then gradually added also middle Verdi ( La traviata, Rigoletto, Il trovatore ), Offenbach ( Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ), then also Massenet ( Esclarmonde and Werther ).

an: Categoría: Contes d ' Anchú

fr: Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ( film, 1951 )

Although Rankin made appearances with several major companies throughout her career, she spent most of her time in New York City performing at the Metropolitan Opera between 1951 and 1976 ; there she sang the role of Carmen, the Princess di Bouillon in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, Madelon in Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Marina in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Giulietta in Offenbach's Les Contes d ' Hoffmann, Herodias in Richard Strauss's Salome, Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto, Azucena in Verdi's Il trovatore, Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, Ulrica in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung, Fricka in Wagner's Die Walküre and Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin among others.

* Contes urbains d ' Ottawa (" Urban Stories of Ottawa "), 1999

( The Cat's Paw, 1741 ) and the humorous Mille et une fadaises, Contes a dormir debout

fr: Scooby-Doo et les Contes des mille et une nuits

* Contes à ma fille ( 1809 )

* Contes pour ma fille ... et pour les autres for My Little Girl ... And for the Others ( article in French ).

* Contes drolatiques ( 1832 – 37 )

It does not include Balzac's 5 theatrical plays or his collection of humorous tales, the " Contes drolatiques " ( 1832 – 37 ).

The fairy tale itself became popular among the précieuses of upper-class France ( 1690 – 1710 ), and among the tales told in that time were the ones of La Fontaine and the Contes of Charles Perrault ( 1697 ), who fixed the forms of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

In Jean de La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes ( 1674 ), a demon is repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt.

* Les Contes pervers (" Perverted Tales "), her first erotic work ( 1980 ), later adapted for cinema

Contes de ma mère l ' Oye ), in 1697, by Charles Perrault.

He published Contes Turcs ( Paris, 1707 ), and Les Mille et un jours ( 5 vols ,, Paris, 1710-1712 ); an Armenian Dictionary and an Account of Ethiopia.

In Jean de La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes ( 1674 ), a demon is repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt.

Their first collection, Les Contes Fantastiques Tales ( 1847 ), includes the classic short story L ' Araignée Crabe Crab-Spider, about a blood-sucking lake monster with the body of a spider and the head of a man.

* One writer who defied any attempt at classification was Pierre Gripari who first wrote truculent, colorful genre novels, such as La Vie, la Mort et la Resurrection de Socrate-Marie Gripotard Death And Resurrection Of Socrate-Marie Gripotard ( 1968 ), about a Candide-like superman and L ' Incroyable Equipée de Phosphore Noloc Incredible Voyage Of Phosphore Noloc ( 1964 ), an homage to Jules Verne in which the hero discovers that our cosmos is really inside a woman's womb, before penning modern fairy tales such as Contes de la Rue Broca Of Broca Street ( 1967 ), which became very popular in the 1980s.

Rameau's comic opera Les Paladins ( 1760 ) is based on a story in canto 18 of Orlando ( though Rameau's librettist derived the plot indirectly via La Fontaine's Contes ).

Andersen reproduces a plate from La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes ( 1674 ) where a demon is repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt.

La Belle et la Bête was, itself, based on an earlier fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Gallon de Villeneuve, included in her collection Les Contes Marins ou La Jeune Américaine (" Sea Stories or The Young American Girl "; 1740 ).

His major works include La Malvenue Illcome ( 1952 ) and the collections Histoires Maléfiques Tales ( 1965 ) and Contes Macabres Stories ( 1966 ).

However, contemporary writers such as Jacques Ferron ( Contes du pays incertain, 1962 ) in Quebec and Antonine Maillet in Acadian New Brunswick ( La Sagouine, 1974, and Pélagie-la-Charette, 1979 ), rely extensively on folk humour and popular culture.

This was followed in 1998 by La Clef des Contes ( The Key of Tales ), and in 1999 by ' Néanderthal Regarde ( Neanderthal Looks On ), an essay on the betrayal of Man in India as in the West.

He published La paix conquise ( 1812 ), an ode which won the praise of Napoleon ; Contes physiologiques ( 1854 ); and Réalités fantastiques ( 1854 ).

* Les Contes by La Fontaine ( 1928 – 1929 ).

To these " absences " from poetry, as Henri Chantavoine calls them, belong the seven volumes of La Vie pour rire ( 1881 – 1883 ), Contes pantagruéliques et galants ( 1884 ), Le Livre des joyeusetés ( 1884 ), Gauloiseries nouvelles ( 1888 ), & c.

Especially, La bête ( The Beast, 1975 ) ( based on the novel Lokis by Prosper Mérimée and originally conceived in 1972 as a film on its own, but then in 1974 as the fifth story in Contes immoraux ) was seen by many as a decline in the director's career after Dzieje grzechu, except in France, where it was hailed by prominent critics such as Ado Kyrou.

A number of his films ( like the " tale " La Marée ( The Tide ) in Contes immoraux, the 1976 La Marge ( The Streetwalker ), the episode Marceline in Les Héroïnes du mal: Margherita, Marceline, Marie ( Immoral Women ) ( 1979 ), and Cérémonie d ' amour were based on stories by André Pieyre de Mandiargues.

During the Second World War Ray's prodigious output slowed, but he was able to publish his best works in French, under the name Jean Ray: Le Grand Nocturne ( 1942 ), La Cité de l ' Indicible Peur, also adapted into a film starring Bourvil, Malpertuis, Les Cercles de L ' Epouvante ( all 1943 ), Les Derniers Contes de Canterbury ( 1944 ) and Le Livre des Fantômes ( 1947 ).

Sternberg ’ s short stories, collected in La Géométrie dans l ' Impossible Impossible Geometry ( 1953 ), La Géométrie dans la Terreur Terror Geometry ( 1958 ), Contes Glacés Tales ( 1974 ) and Contes Griffus Tales ( 1993 ), to name but a few, successfully mix several diverse elements: a very dark sense of Surreal humor, a kafkaesque notion of the absurd, a taste for the macabre, and finally, a somber, pessimistic vision of the world and the future.