Louise de Bossigny (1670–1730)

Louise de Bossigny, comtesse d'Auneuil, was a Parisian salonnière spanning the 17th-18th centuries, and one of the important female authors of fairy tales in French society of the period. Little is known of her life except her connections to grand aristocratic circles. She married the comte d'Auneuil and established her standing in Paris and at court with a salon called "le cabinet des fées" that was "open to all the beaux esprits and to all the women who wrote." Her published fairy tale collections included La Tiranie des fées détruite (The Tyranny of the Fairies Destroyed, 1702); L'Origine des cornes, ou l'Inconstance punie (1702); La Princesse des Pretintailles (1702); L'Origine du lansquenet (1703); and Les Chevaliers errans et le genie familier (The Knights Errant and the Familiar Genie, 1709).