Donkeyskin

About “Donkeyskin”

"Donkeyskin" is a French literary fairytale written in verse by Charles Perrault, first published in 1695 in a small volume and republished in 1697 in Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé. Andrew Lang included it, somewhat euphemized, in The Grey Fairy Book. It is classed among folktales of Aarne-Thompson type 510B, unnatural love. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)