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«Cinderella» in French

Cendrillon

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✒ Author
📖 Pages10
⏰ Reading time 30 minutes
💡 Originally published1812
🌏 Original language German
📌 Type Fairy tale
📌 Genres Children's literature, Adventure, Parable

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Un homme riche avait une femme qui tomba malade; et quand celle-ci sentit sa fin prochaine, elle appela à son chevet son unique fille et lui dit: «Chère enfant, reste bonne et pieuse, et le bon Dieu t'aidera toujours, et moi, du haut du ciel, je te regarderai et te protégerai.» Puis elle ferma les yeux et mourut. La fillette se rendit chaque jour sur la tombe de sa mère, pleura et resta bonne et pieuse. L'hiver venu, la neige recouvrit la tombe d'un tapis blanc. Mais au printemps, quand le soleil l'eut fait fondre, l'homme prit une autre femme.
There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, "Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you." And then she closed her eyes and expired. The maiden went every day to her mother's grave and wept, and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself another wife.
La femme avait amené avec elle ses deux filles qui étaient jolies et blanches de visage, mais laides et noires de coeur. Alors de bien mauvais jours commencèrent pour la pauvre belle-fille. «Faut-il que cette petite oie reste avec nous dans la salle?» dirent-elles. «Qui veut manger du pain, doit le gagner. Allez ouste, souillon!» Elles lui enlevèrent ses beaux habits, la vêtirent d'un vieux tablier gris et lui donnèrent des sabots de bois. «Voyez un peu la fière princesse, comme elle est accoutrée!» s'écrièrent-elles en riant et elles la conduisirent à la cuisine. Alors il lui fallut faire du matin au soir de durs travaux, se lever bien avant le jour, porter de l'eau, allumer le feu, faire la cuisine et la lessive. En outre, les deux soeurs lui faisaient toutes les misères imaginables, se moquaient d'elle, lui renversaient les pois et les lentilles dans la cendre, de sorte qu'elle devait recommencer à les trier. Le soir, lorsqu'elle était épuisée de travail, elle ne se couchait pas dans un lit, mais devait s'étendre près du foyer dans les cendres. Et parce que cela lui donnait toujours un air poussiéreux et sale, elles l'appelèrent Cendrillon.
The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were, black and ugly. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter. "Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?" said they; "those who eat food must earn it. Out upon her for a kitchen-maid!" They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old grey kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear. "Just look now at the proud princess, how she is decked out!" cried they laughing, and then they sent her into the kitchen. There she was obliged to do heavy work from morning to night, get up early in the morning, draw water, make the fires, cook, and wash. Besides that, the sisters did their utmost to torment her, mocking her, and strewing peas and lentils among the ashes, and setting her to pick them up. In the evenings, when she was quite tired out with her hard day's work, she had no bed to lie on, but was obliged to rest on the hearth among the cinders. And as she always looked dusty and dirty, they named her Cinderella.
Il arriva que le père voulut un jour se rendre à la foire; il demanda à ses deux belles-filles ce qu'il devait leur rapporter. «De beaux habits,» dit l'une. «Des perles et des pierres précieuses,» dit la seconde. «Et toi, Cendrillon,» demanda-t-il, «que veux-tu?» - «Père, le premier rameau qui heurtera votre chapeau sur le chemin du retour, cueillez-le pour moi.» Il acheta donc de beaux habits, des perles et des pierres précieuses pour les deux soeurs, et, sur le chemin du retour, en traversant à cheval un vert bosquet, une branche de noisetier l'effleura et fit tomber son chapeau. Alors il cueillit le rameau et l'emporta. Arrivé à la maison, il donna à ses belles-filles ce qu'elles avaient souhaité et à Cendrillon le rameau de noisetier. Cendrillon le remercia, s'en alla sur la tombe de sa mère et y planta le rameau, en pleurant si fort que les larmes tombèrent dessus et l'arrosèrent. Il grandit cependant et devint un bel arbre. Cendrillon allait trois fois par jour pleurer et prier sous ses branches, et chaque fois un petit oiseau blanc venait se poser sur l'arbre. Quand elle exprimait un souhait, le petit oiseau lui lançait à terre ce quelle avait souhaité.
It happened one day that the father went to the fair, and he asked his two step-daughters what he should bring back for them. "Fine clothes!" said one. "Pearls and jewels!" said the other. "But what will you have, Cinderella?" said he. "The first twig, father, that strikes against your hat on the way home; that is what I should like you to bring me." So he bought for the two step-daughters fine clothes, pearls, and jewels, and on his way back, as he rode through a green lane, a hazel-twig struck against his hat; and he broke it off and carried it home with him. And when he reached home he gave to the step-daughters what they had wished for, and to Cinderella he gave the hazel-twig. She thanked him, and went to her mother's grave, and planted this twig there, weeping so bitterly that the tears fell upon it and watered it, and it flourished and became a fine tree. Cinderella went to see it three times a day, and wept and prayed, and each time a white bird rose up from the tree, and if she uttered any wish the bird brought her whatever she had wished for.
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