To all my readers:
I have had so much fun writting this blog and learning about French folklore over the past 8 weeks!
To be honest, when I chose this topic I thought it was a bit of a joke and there wouldn't be much to do other than read and critique french fables and fairy tales - but how I was wrong!
This blog has not only opened my mind up to another aspect of French culture that I would never normally come across, but it has also expanded my knowledge of global literature, regardless of the language it is written in.
What surprised me the most in this blog is how universal these stories have become. From Charles Perrault to Rabelais, many of these works have been incorporated into not only my childhood by also the childhood of my parents and their parents before them. In fact, the stories were so intrinsic in my life that I had previously believed that they were of English origin and a part of western, anglo-saxon culture and it has genuinely surprised me how much has come from France!
I suppose when I think back, my ideas on French culture and how it has made its mark on the world has really been limited to food and art, but since writing this blog not only do I know for a fact that France has immeasurably influenced world literature and touched millions of children's lives, fostering their imaginations and creating mystical worlds of fairies, goblins, princesses and giants, but I also have begun to wonder where else France has left its mark.
If anything, this is one of my regrets and disappointments about this pilot blog project - I would have loved to learn about so many of the other available topics that my fellow classmates have undertaken rather than just following and commenting on the one other blog.
Thank you so much for reading and I hope you have learnt as much as I have!
Alannah
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