Du Phoenix: 1059 books

Un roi possède en son jardin un arbre qui produit des pommes d'or. Un jour, il s'aperçoit qu'il en manque une et décide d'envoyer l'aîné de ses trois fils monter la garde durant la nuit auprès de l'arbre. À minuit, le fils s'endort et, le lendemain,...

Le renard fit un jour au loup des récits merveilleux de la force de l’homme ; il n’est pas un seul des animaux, dit-il, qui puisse lui résister, et tous ont besoin de recourir à la ruse pour échapper à ses coups...

Il était une fois un ménétrier qui avait un violon merveilleux. Ce ménétrier se rendit un jour tout seul dans une forêt, laissant errer sa pensée ça et là; et quand il ne sut plus à quoi songer, il se dit: "Le temps commence...

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.

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. -...

Once upon a time all the streams and rivers ran so dry that the animals did not know how to get water. After a very long search, which had been quite in vain, they found a tiny spring, which only wanted to be dug deeper so as to yield plenty of water. So the beasts said to each other,...

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....