The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Lintot, Catherine Caillot, dame de

Lintot, Catherine Caillot, dame de (c.1728–?),
French writer about whom virtually nothing is known. She is the author of Trois nouveaux contes de fées, avec une préface qui n'est pas moins sérieuse (Three New Fairy Tales, with a Preface that is No Less Serious, 1735), which contains ‘Timandre et Bleuette’, ‘Le Prince Sincer’, and ‘Tendrebrun et Constance’. The sentimental plots, allusions to cabbalistic magic, and abundance of fairies in these tales are fairly typical of 17th‐ and 18th‐century ‘serious’ French fairy tales. In ‘Prince Sincer’ and ‘Tendrebrun and Constance’, she develops the monstrous spouse motif, like several women writers of fairy tales in this period, including Mme Leprince de Beaumont, Marguerite de Lubert, and Mme de Villeneuve. The preface...

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