Riquet with the Tuft, a Fairy Tale

Riquet with the Tuft (French: Riquet à la Houppe), also known as "Ricky of the
Tuft", is a very famous folktale / fable / fairy tale written by Charles
Perrault. A fairy gives an ugly prince named Ricky the gift of conferring wit
upon the one he loves the best. Prince Ricky of the Tuft comes to a kingdom
with two princesses. The elder one is beautiful but unintelligent and the
younger one is intelligent but ugly. The elder princess is saddened that her
ugly but smart sister receives more attention than her. One day as the elder
princess was going for a walk in the forest to ease her sorrow, she is
approached by Ricky who had fallen in love with her after seeing portraits of
her that circulated. Ricky asks how a person so beautiful as she can be so
sad, to which she responds that she is sad because she is beautiful but lacks
intelligence. Ricky then bestows the gift of intelligence on the elder
princess for a promise of marriage. A year later, Ricky comes to marry her.
She refuses on grounds that he cannot hold her to a promise made before she
gained her wisdom. The princess then tells him that she was gifted at birth
with the power to transform her lover into a beautiful person by the same
fairy who helped him...