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«A riddling tale» in French

Conte-devinette

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📖 Pages1
⏰ Reading time 10 minutes
💡 Originally published1815
🌏 Original language German
📌 Type Fairy tale
📌 Genres Children's literature, Adventure, Parable

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Conte-devinette: read the book with parallel translation into English

Trois femmes avaient été métamorphosées en fleurs et brillaient ainsi dans la campagne. Cependant le charme permettait que l'une d'elles retournât chaque nuit dans sa demeure. Il y avait quelque temps qu'elle subissait cette métamorphose, lorsqu'elle dit à son mari: "L'aurore va paraître, et je devrai te quitter de nouveau pour rejoindre mes compagnes et redevenir, comme elles, fleur des champs; mais si tu arrives aujourd'hui avant midi, et que tu me cueilles, l'enchantement cessera, et je ne le quitterai plus désormais." Vous me demanderez maintenant comment son mari aura pu la reconnaître, puisque toutes les fleurs étaient pareilles?
Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day was drawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in the field and become a flower again, she said to her husband: "If thou wilt come this afternoon and gather me, I shall be set free and henceforth stay with thee." And he did so. Now the question is, how did her husband know her, for the flowers were exactly alike, and without any difference?
Je vous répondrai: Son mari la reconnut, parce qu'elle avait passé la nuit à la maison et non dans les champs, et qu'ainsi la rosée, qui était tombée sur les autres, ne se trouva pas sur elle.
Answer: "As she was at her home during the night and not in the field, no dew fell on her as it did on the others, and by this her husband knew her."
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