Note 80 — PERRAULT'S (continued 2)
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This is the Mouton of Madame D'Aulnoy, but he is a prodigiously courtly creature, and becomes the Beast who half dies for love and is revived by a kiss. 'Un joli Mouton, brebis doux, bien caressant, ne laisse pas de plaire, surtout quand on scait qu'il est roi, et que la métamorphose doit finir.' But the heroine came too late, and the gallant Mouton expired.