This picture and the following five were taken from Nouveaux contes de fées pour les petits enfants, written by Comtesse de Ségur (1799 – 1874), a famous and very successful French author of children literature. It was published in English under the title Old French Fairy Tales, (although the original title would be more acurately tranlated as New fairy tales for little children), and an early twentieth-century edition was illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett. The present edition was illustrated by Gustave Doré and Jules Didier, and published by Hachette, Paris, 1917.
Le roi avait donné à blondine une joile petite voiture attelée de deux autruches et menée par un petit page de dix ans, qui était un neveu de la nourrice de Blodine. (Histoire de Blondine, Bonne-Biche et de Beau-Minon)
The king had given Blondine a charming little carriage drawn by ostriches, and a little coachman ten years of age, who was the nephew of her nurse. (Blondine, Bonne-Biche and Beau-Minon)
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