Cleverness Over Strength: The Triumph of Wit in French Folktales
In the folktales of France, strength alone was never enough. Castles rose high and kings wore crowns, giants strode across the land and ogres ruled with fear, yet time and again it was not force that prevailed, but wit. These stories, passed from hearth to hearth and later preserved in writing, reflected a quiet but powerful truth: in a world