We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read "Prince Darling", a french fairy-tale credited to Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

The author is also known for the best known version of "Beauty and the Beast". She was one of the first to include folk tales as moralist and educational tools in her writings. Her third husband was the French spy Thomas Pichon.

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