8 - Riquet with the Tuft: of Beauties and Beasts

What would you choose if you had to pick one: beauty or intelligence? In this episode of Roots of Lore, we're exploring two stories that test what qualities are most important in love: Riquet with the Tuft (of Charles Perrault and Catherine Bernard) and Beauty and the Beast (of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont) plus taking it back to some lovers of mythology: Cupid and Psyche.

Stories in this episode:

• Charles Perrault's "Riquet with the Tuft" (2:32)
• Catherine Bernard's "Riquet with the Tuft" (20:35)
• Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont "Beauty and the Beast" (41:02)
• Lucius Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche (1:12:37)

Resources mentioned:

• The Memoirs of Casanova by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
• The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola to Basile to the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes
• Trinquet, Charlotte. (2010). "Happily ever after? Not so easily! Seventeenth-century fairy tales and their unconventional endings." 37. 45-54.
• Roots of Lore Episode #7: The Fairies and the Enchantments of Eloquence
• Cupid and Psyche by Lucius Apuleius

More from Christine A. Jones:

• Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales
• Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives
• Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws
• "Mother Goose’s French Birth (1697) and British Afterlife (1729)"
• "Thoughts on 'Heroinism' in French Fairy Tales"