#fée

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yet another fairy

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Phalène et Feux Follets

Artist : Ludovic Alleaume (1859-1941)

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Marseille, le 25 avril, c'était le défilé du Carnaval ! (ici, Quai de Rive-Neuve). Ici des fées argentées volant dans les airs.

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La fée Licitée, la fée prunus cerasus la plus musclée du jardin

Les fée naissent lorsqu'un arbre fruitier est pollinisé avec un pollen créée par un certain alchimiste qui garde sa recette secrète.

À la place de donner un fruit, la fleur pollinisé devient en août une fée, celle-ci varie d’apparence selon le fruit.

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La fée du Printemps 🌼🌿

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La Fée des Abeilles

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Does anyone else find bees super cute, or is it just me?

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I was thinking about the difference between the British "fairy" and the French "fée", and suddenly the perfect comparison struck me.

The "fairy" from British folklore is basically Guillermo del Toro's take on the fair folk, trolls, goblins and other fairies in his movies, from "Pan's Labyrinth" to "Hellboy II". You know, all those weird monsters and bizarre critters with strange laws and customs, living half-hidden from humans, and coming in all sorts of shapes and sizes and sub-species and whatnot. Almost European yokai.

But the "fée" of French legend and literature? The fées are basically Tolkien's Elves. Except they are all female (or mostly female).

Because what is a "fée"? A fée is a woman taller and more beautiful than regular human beings. She is a woman who knows very advanced crafts and sciences, and wields mysterious unexplained powers. She is a woman who lives in fabulous, strange and magical places. She is a woman with a natural knowledge or foresight of the past and the future, and who can appear and disappear without being seen. Galadriel as she appears in The Lord of the Rings is basically the best example I can use when trying to explain to someone what a "fée" in French folklore and culture actually is.

(As a reminder: the fées of France are mostly represented by the Otherwordly Ladies of the Arthurian literature - Morgane, Viviane, bunch of unnamed ladies - or by the fairy godmothers of Perrault or d'Aulnoy's fairytales, to give you an idea of how they differ from the traditional "fae" or "fair folk". All female, and more unified, and so human-like they can pass of or be taken for humans. The "fées" are cultural descendants of the nymphs and goddesses and oracles/priestesses of Greco-Roman-Germanic-Gallic mythologies. That's why they are so easily confused with witches when they turn evil, and when Christianity arose most fées were replaced by the figure of the Virgin Mary, the most famous "magical beautiful otherwordly woman" of the religion)

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Fée gothique assise sur un croissant de lune

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