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Emmanuel Cosquin

1841–1919

A French folklorist best known for collecting the tales later published as Contes populaires de Lorraine, he helped bring village storytelling into serious literary and scholarly discussion. His work is also remembered for arguing that many European folktales ultimately traced back to Indian narrative traditions.

2 Audiobooks

Contes populaires de Lorraine, comparés avec les contes des autres provinces de France et des pays étrangers, volume 2 (of 2)

Contes populaires de Lorraine, comparés avec les contes des autres provinces de France et des pays étrangers, volume 2 (of 2)

by Emmanuel Cosquin

Contes populaires de Lorraine, comparés avec les contes des autres provinces de France et des pays étrangers, volume 1 (of 2)

Contes populaires de Lorraine, comparés avec les contes des autres provinces de France et des pays étrangers, volume 1 (of 2)

by Emmanuel Cosquin

About the author

Emmanuel Cosquin was a French folklorist, born in 1841 and died in 1919. He is best known for Contes populaires de Lorraine, a collection drawn from oral storytelling in Lorraine, especially from the village of Montiers-sur-Saulx.

His research focused on how folktales travel across cultures. He became especially associated with the idea that many European tales had very old links to Indian story traditions, a view that made him an important voice in nineteenth-century folklore studies.

Today, he is remembered as both a collector and a theorist: someone who preserved local storytelling while also asking big questions about where stories come from and how they spread.