Grimm: 1277 books

Jean avait servi son maître sept ans; il lui dit: " Monsieur, mon temps est fini; je voudrais retourner chez ma mère; payez-moi mes gages, s'il vous plaît. " Son maître lui répondit: " Tu m'as bien et loyalement servi; la récompense sera bonne. " Et il lui donna un lingot d'or, gros comme la tête de Jean.

Il y avait une fois deux frères, dont l’un était riche, et l’autre pauvre. Le riche était orfèvre, et il avait un mauvais cœur ; le pauvre gagnait sa misérable vie à nouer des balais ; il était bon et honnête. Il avait deux enfants ;...

Il était une fois un souriceau, un oiselet est une petite saucisse qui s'étaient pris d'amitié, avaient mis en commun les soucis du ménage et vivaient fort heureux, tranquilles et contents depuis un bon bout de temps...

C’est l’histoire d’un homme qui s’appelle Frédé, et qui vit avec son frère, surnommé le grand Sot...

Un paysan avait un fils qui n'était pas plus gros que le pouce; il ne grandissait nullement, et en plusieurs années sa taille ne s'accrut pas d'un cheveu. Un jour que le père allait aux champs labourer, le petit lui dit: -" Père, je veux sortir avec toi. -...

An impoverished man has had so many children, that (by the time he has another) he finds that he has already asked everyone in the world to be godparents for his previous children. Befuddled as to how he is supposed to find anyone to act as godparent for his newly-born child, he withdraws to his chamber for the night....

A wealthy gentleman's wife lay on her deathbed, and called her only daughter to her bedside. She asked her to remain good and kind, and told her that God would protect her. She then died and was buried. A year went by and the widower married another woman, who had two daughters of her own....

Twelve princesses, each more beautiful than the last, sleep in twelve beds in the same room. Every night, their doors are securely locked. But in the morning, their dancing shoes are found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night...

A poor man has twelve children, and works just hard enough to feed each of them every day. When his thirteenth child is born, the man decides to find agodfather for this child. He runs out into the highway, and finds God walking on the highway. God asks to be the godfather, promising the child health and happiness...

One night, her husband breaks into the garden to gather some for her; on a second night, as he scales the wall to return home, an evil witch named Dame Gothel catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and she agrees to be lenient, on condition that the baby be given to her at birth. ...

Hans had served his master for seven years, so he said to him, "Master, my time is up. Now I would like to go back home to my mother. Give me my wages."...

A cat and a mouse, contrary to the custom of their kinds, become friends, such good friends that they decide to share a home. That they might have something to fall back on in time of need, they buy a pot of fat and hide it away in a nook of a church for safekeeping....

A sorcerer took the form of a beggar and carried off young women. He carried off an oldest sister and assured her she would be happy with him. Then, he went off and forbade her to enter one room; he also gave her an egg and told her to carry it everywhere and be careful with it...

A poor cottager had nothing to give his three sons, so he walked with them to a crossroad, where each son took a different road. The youngest went into a great woods, and a storm struck, so he sought shelter in a house. The old woman there warned him that it is a den of robbers, but he stayed, and when the robbers arrived, he persuaded them to take him on as a servant...