[1][2] It is Aarne–Thompson type 310, The Maiden in the Tower, and a significant influence on the German fairy tale of "Rapunzel".

They live next door to a fairy whose walled garden is filled with fruits, plants, and vegetables, including parsley, which is notably rare.

The wife desperately craves parsley, so her husband slips into the garden while the gate is open to get some for her.

The prince seeks more information on the girl in the tower, and one day overhears the fairy telling Persinette to lower her hair.

She cuts off Persinette's braids and long hair and carries her in a cloud to a hut on the seashore, where she leaves her.

Meanwhile, the fairy lures the prince to the tower by mimicking Persinette's song and lowering the girl's hair as a rope.

Persinette resembles the earlier Italian tale of Petrosinella (1634) as well as Madame d'Aulnoy's "La Chatte Blanche" (1697).

[3] Friedrich Schulz published a German translation of the story, retitled Rapunzel, in 1790 in Kleine Romane (Little Novels).