Project Gutenberg 2005-11-18 Public domain in the USA. 278 Perrault, Charles 1628 1703 Ripart, Georges 1871 Ripart, G. (Georges) Riquet à la Houppe: Conte Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riquet_with_the_Tuft Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riquet_%C3%A0_la_houppe Produced by Suzanne Shell, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Riquet à la Houppe: Conte" by Charles Perrault is a classic fairy tale written during the late 17th century. This enchanting story illustrates themes of beauty and intelligence through the experiences of a prince born with an unusual appearance yet endowed with great intellect. The book is a whimsical exploration of love, acceptance, and the interplay between outer beauty and inner worth. The narrative centers around Riquet, a prince who, despite being unattractive, possesses the magical ability to confer intelligence to the one he loves. The story unfolds as Riquet falls in love with a beautiful princess who lacks wit. After promising to marry Riquet, the princess gains intelligence through their bond, which complicates her feelings as she learns to appreciate Riquet’s qualities. Ultimately, the themes of personal transformation and the value of kindness and intellect over superficial beauty emerge as Riquet finds his own true worth as the princess learns to see beyond appearances. The tale concludes with a celebration of love that transcends the barriers imposed by society’s judgments on beauty and intellect. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 71.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr Fairy tales PZ Text FR Contes Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: French Literature 39492 2025-06-07T10:56:31.656066 text/html 34563 2020-12-12T21:57:53 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 429606 2020-12-12T21:57:53 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 493774 2025-06-07T10:56:37.004082 application/epub+zip 492484 2025-06-07T10:56:34.041078 application/epub+zip 81274 2025-06-07T10:56:32.255054 application/epub+zip 1040476 2025-06-07T10:56:38.705072 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1033533 2025-06-07T10:56:35.684055 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140640 2022-09-08T09:14:17.043204 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 33876 2025-06-07T10:56:31.376049 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 33454 2020-12-12T21:57:53 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 12620 2020-12-12T21:57:53 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19952 2025-06-07T10:56:38.855018 application/rdf+xml 13012 2025-06-07T10:56:32.808072 image/jpeg 3632 2025-06-07T10:56:32.529063 image/jpeg 496098 2025-06-07T10:56:31.677043 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia