The article deals with the history of the functioning of the works of a little-known French writer Marianne Agnes de Fauques (1728-1773) in the Russian cultural space. In the course of analyzing the state of the emerging translation practice of the times, the rules of bookselling, the composition of private libraries, the picture of the entry of European entertaining literature into the Russian book market, to the Russian reader is being formed. Particular attention is paid in the article to the collected fairytales by M. de Fauques Les Contes du Serail (Serial Tales). The popularity of the collection among readers of different social strata is testified not only by the fact of its reissue, but also by its availability in private libraries. In the contents of the collection the reader can find one of the most famous world stories of folklore � AT 550 (the Firebird), which once again draws attention to the complex process of interaction between literature and folk narrative. Theoretical provisions of the article and its conclusions will be of interest to specialists in the history of literature and culture, cross-cultural interaction, folklorists studying the issues of the folk narrative art.

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