Contes
Tales
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Jacques Offenbach left his opera Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) unfinished when he died in 1880.
Source: Author Existence Failure -
The name of the genre can be traced to Madame d'Aulnoy's Les Contes de Fées, which appeared only after literary fairy tales became all the rage.
Source: Fairy Tale -
Fairy Tales often involve fairies, at least they do nowadays, but that term comes from Madame d'Aulnoy's Les Contes de Fées.
Source: Our Fairies Are Different
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