To the best of my knowledge, No. Google and various antiquarian sites all deny their existence in English (I sought for them for quite a while). According to amazon.fr there is such a thing as "Les racines historiques du conte merveilleux" (1983) but this appears to be out of print. Pity, since my French is somewhat better than my Italian, reading the latter mostly mostly consists of guessing from similarities with French/Latin/English/musical terms. In some cases I had to lookt at the Russian text to understand the Italian...
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According to amazon.fr there is such a thing as "Les racines historiques du conte merveilleux" (1983) but this appears to be out of print. Pity, since my French is somewhat better than my Italian, reading the latter mostly mostly consists of guessing from similarities with French/Latin/English/musical terms. In some cases I had to lookt at the Russian text to understand the Italian...