In one kingdom he fell in love with a maid of honor named Blondine, but learned by putting a magic pink rose on her throat that she was in love with a hateful musician, so left her kingdom heartbroken. First Léandre took revenge on Furibon and the queen, by sneaking unseen into their palace where he nailed Furibon's ear to a door, beat them a thousand times with a rod used on the king's dogs, and tore up all the fruit and flowers in the queen's garden. Then she gave him a small red hat, trimmed with two parrot feathers, that would make him invisible when he wore it.Īs an imp, Léandre began to travel. So Gentille said "Be Imp" and passed her hands three times over his eyes and face.
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Finally she suggested he become an "air, water and terrestrial lutin." Gentille described the benefits of being a lutin (imp): "You are invisible when you like it you cross in one moment the vast space of the universe you rise without having wings you go through the ground without dying you penetrate the abysses of the sea without drowning you enter everywhere, though the windows and the doors are closed and, when you decide to, you can let yourself be seen in your natural form."
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Gentille was indebted to Léandre for protecting her life when she was a grass snake and offered him all sorts of rewards: riches, a long life, a kingdom with houses full of gold, the life of an excellent orator, poet, musician, or painter. She said she took the form of a snake for 8 days every 100 years and could have been killed. Léandre decided that he must travel the world and get away from the kingdom once and for all.īefore leaving, Léandre visited the room of the grass snake and found out that it had turned into a beautiful jewel-studded fairy named Gentille. One day Furibon came into the woods with assassins to hunt Léandre down and kill him. He found an injured grass snake one evening and brought it home to feed and care for it, hoping it would bring him some joy.
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In the countryside, Léandre was free to hunt, fish, walk, paint, read and play musical instruments. Thus, Léandre's father sent Léandre to live in a castle in the countryside, to be safely far away from Furibon.
When no one was looking, Furibon angrily took Léandre by the hair and tore out three handfuls. One day, ambassadors came from afar and seeing Léandre with Furibon together, they bowed to Léandre thinking he was the prince and thinking Furibon was just a dwarf. He insulted people and reported their secret faults to the King and Queen. Léandre was very well liked in court, the ladies loved him, thought him very handsome and called him the "beautiful indifferent one" (translated). This governor brought with him his own son named prince Léandre. Furibon's governor was a rival prince, who had claims to the throne.
He was as large as the largest man and small as smallest dwarf, he had an ugly face and a deformed body and mean spirit, but the queen was insane and thought Furibon was the most beautiful child in the world. There was once a king and queen who had a malformed son named Furibon. The story is about the life of Léandre, a handsome prince who was a human but turned into a lutin (imp) after the ruling prince forced his retreat from court into the countryside. A German language translation titled the tale Prinz Kobold.
Notably, this story gives a description of the Lutin.Įnglish publications of this tale translated its name as The Hobgoblin Prince, Prince Sprite, Prince Ariel, Prince Elfin or The Invisible Prince. A lutin was like an imp or hobgoblin in the mythology of Normandy, similar to house-spirits of Germany and Scandinavia. The word Lutin, in French, can have several translations and meanings. The Imp Prince (known as Le Prince Lutin in French) is a French fairy tale written by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy and published in her book Fairy Tales ( Les Contes des Fees) in 1697. 1697 French fairy tale written by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy
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