Contes populaires de Lorraine, comparés avec les contes des autres provinces de France et des pays étrangers, volume 1 (of 2)

A collection of one hundred oral tales and variants gathered from a single village in Lorraine and transcribed with minimal literary embellishment, presented alongside an introductory essay arguing about the origin and spread of European folktales. Each tale is followed by comparative notes tracing parallels in other French and foreign collections, especially eastern traditions, and a bibliographic index and supplementary remarks deepen the comparative evidence. The editors aim for faithful reproduction of local storytelling, and the work combines primary narratives with scholarly commentary on motifs, forms, and pathways of transmission across Europe.