Help finding a French fairy tale!

[SummerSolstice]

I would be willing to supply any requested internal organ in exchange for the text of the story "Serpentin Vert" by Countess d'Aulnoy. Even if it's a really cruddy automatic translation, or not a translation at all, that's okay. I just want this story very badly, and I can't find it anywhere. Not in books, not online. I've found the "moral" at the end, but no more. :(

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! You're my only hope!

[Schokokeks]

Hihi, luckily, I'm still officially registered a student of French at my university, though I don't study it anymore :D. I'll get down to the library of the French department as soon as I can and do a little research for you. If it is a fairy tale, I assume it is short, and I should be able to copy it from a book and mail the scanned paiges to you. Though I can't promise I'll be able to locate it, I'll go and try :nod:.

[Whifflingpin]

Try here
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/daulnoy.html

Mme d'Aulnoy was a baronne, not a comtesse.

Oh, I'll settle for your heart, my dear:D

[SummerSolstice]

<Audible gasp of joy!>

You have GOT it, Whiff! (My heart, I mean!) How did you find it? I've been looking for MONTHS and it's taken me THIS long to find out the story's correct name (and, apparently, the author's incorrect title)! I heard a version of this story on a CD called "Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales." I'd been looking for a good obscure fairy tale to adapt, and "Laidronette, Empress of the Pagodes," as they put it, was about the sorriest one I'd heard in a while. I've been working for a while on chiselling it out, but I ultimately decided I needed to know the original story instead of just Audrey Hepburn's version before I innovated too much. Thank you loads!!

Thank you, too, Schok! That's so sweet of you to look it up for me, but from the look of things it probably wasn't something you wanted to write down in its entirety! ^_^

[Schokokeks]

No, I would have used a copying machine, or xerox, or whatever that is in English :D.

But I'm glad you've found it now :nod:.

[Whifflingpin]

"You have GOT it, Whiff! (My heart, I mean!) "

Thank you - I shall treasure it, but return it to you when you have someone more worthy on whom to bestow it.

As for finding the tale, I simply Googled "d'Aulnoy" and followed a few likely links.
Perhaps Baronne d'Aulnoy should be added to the LitNet author list.