Aurore and Aimée

Aurore and Aimée is a French literary fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Like her better known tale Beauty and the Beast, it is among the first fairy tales deliberately written for children.

It draws on traditional fairy tale motifs from the Aarne–Thompson tale type 480, the kind and the unkind girls; as is common in those tales, the abused daughter finds herself in a new place, where, after a test, a kindly woman rewards her. Folk tales of this type include "Diamonds and Toads", "Shita-kiri Suzume", "Mother Hulda", "The Three Heads of the Well", "Father Frost", "The Three Little Men in the Wood", "The Enchanted Wreath", "The Old Witch" and "The Two Caskets". Another literary variant is "The Three Fairies".