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by Micha F. Lindemans

A nursery tale from the French La Belle au Bois Dormant, by Charles Perrault. The princess is shut up by enchantment in a castle, where she sleeps for a hundred years. During that time an impregnable wood springs up around the castle. Ultimately she is released by a kiss of a young prince, who marries her.