Fortunée or Felicia and the Pot of Pinks is a French literary fairy tale, written by Madame d'Aulnoy.
Once, a great lady had visited him, and gave him a pot of pinks and a silver ring for his daughter.
Soon after he died, the brother forbade his sister to sit on his stool and ate the eggs the hen laid, giving her only the shells.
Her fairy sister sent her own baby, a son, to replace her new daughter, but the princess had already fled to this cottage.
The same lady had returned to give the labourer the ring and the pinks, and also to turn into cabbages some of the soldiers sent for the girl.
The Queen of the Woods offered to avenge her, she declined, and then refused to claim to be a princess, because she had no evidence.
The queen explained that when she sent her son to her sister, an enemy had taken advantage of it to turn him into a pot of pinks.
[2] The tale was one of many from d'Aulnoy's pen to be adapted to the stage by James Planché, as part of his Fairy Extravaganza.