The fairies' favourite (The Illustrious Fairies, 1710)
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Description
A fairy awakens the one who is to become the fairies' favorite by touching him with her wand. She
"spotted Galeran who was in a deep sleep, and finding him very handsome, she sat down beside him to await his awakening. After contemplating so much beauty for a long time, impatient to know if he had touching eyes, and great pleasures in his mouth of which she could not judge in the state he was in, she awakened him by gently nudging him with a wand she carried in her hand."
2. Reverse of the more frustrated engraving (on wood?) from the Paris edition, M.-M. Brunet, 1698, Bnf call number Y2-8798, Arsenal 8-BL-19106, poor quality microfilm reproduced on Gallica.
P. 198 in the 1698 edition, whose right-hand tree, straight and clearly visible, is now tilted to the left, so that only the trunk is visible.
. 3. On the model of Herminie et Trancrède.
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