Abridged Version
When her twentieth year had nearly come, the king and queen
sent her portrait about to princes. One king sent his
ambassador to make an offer for his son. The princess
conceived an overwhelming desire to see the ambassador,
and her servants, for fear of what she would do, made a hole in
the tower that let her see. She instantly fell in love with the
ambassador, Fanfarinet. When she met him, she persuaded
him to run away with her, and took the king's dagger and the
queen's headdress with them. They fled to a desert island.
The next morning, a chancellor realized how the princess had
been looking at the ambassador, the nurses confessed about
the hole, and the admiral set out in chase. They identified the
man who had rowed them to the island by the gold the
princess had given them.
At the island, the ambassador instantly began to complain of
hunger and thirst, and when the princess could find nothing,
he could find nothing worthwhile in her love. One day, a rose
offered her some honeycomb and warned her not to show the
ambassador; she did, and he snatched it and ate it all. An oak
offered her a pitcher of milk and warned her not to show the
ambassador; she did, and he snatched it and drank it all. The
princess realized how rashly she had acted. A nightingale
offered her sugarplums and tarts, and this time, she ate them
herself. When the ambassador tried to threaten her, she used
the magical stone in her mother's headdress to make herself
invisible.
The admiral sent men to the island. The princess used the
magical stone to make the ambassador invisible, and he
stabbed so many of them that they had to retreat. But the
hungry ambassador tried to kill her, and she killed him. Two
fairies fought, and one won and told her that the fairy
Carabosse had tried to claim her because she left the tower
four days before the twenty years were up, but she was
defeated. She is brought back to cou 'B