After a wealthy king loses his dear wife, he meets and falls in love with a woman, who is also recently widowed and they marry.

One day, the king decides the time has come to arrange his daughters' marriages and soon, Prince Charming visits the kingdom.

The queen and Truitonne are so furious that they badger the king until he agrees to lock Florine up for the length of the visit and they attempt to blacken her character to the Prince.

In the darkness of their meeting place, Prince Charming mistakes Truitonne for Florine and unwittingly asks for the princess's hand in marriage.

One day, exasperated by the many suitors that have rejected Truitonne, the Queen seeks Florine in her tower, only to find her singing with the bluebird.

Florine opens the window to let the bird escape, but the Queen discovers her jewellery and realises that she has been receiving some kind of aid.

The Queen orders for the fir tree, where the bird perches, to be covered with sharp edges of glass and metal, so that he will be fatally wounded and unable to fly.

The fairy tells her that King Charming has returned to his human form after agreeing to marry Truitonne and gives her four magical eggs.

The enchanter and the fairy assure them that they can prevent Mazilla from harming them, and when Truitonne attempts to interfere, they quickly turn her into a sow.

[13] French folklorists Paul Delarue and Marie-Louise Ténèze noted that in d'Aulnoy's tale, the heroine bribes her step-sister with precious objects to allow for access to Charmant.

The Golden Ring is a prince from a foreign country (India) who, after meeting the merchant, tells him he saw Daphne in his dreams and wishes to marry her.

The prince metamorphoses into a pigeon to meet Daphne by her window in secret, flies in and jumps into a cup to become human.

Some time later, jealous of her hidden happiness, her sisters see that a knife is inside the cup and summon the prince to be hurt while in bird form.

Learning of her beloved's injuries, Daphne dons a masculine disguise, sails to India and wanders to her prince's kingdom.

Daphne kills the birds, prepares the ointment and goes to Prince Fortunate's castle in a doctor's disguise to apply the cure on his body.

The girl's sisters begin to envy her happiness and place razors on the window, for the next time the man flies in.

Composing herself, she wanders off through the dunes until she reaches two dervishes talking about curing diseases: to heal razor wounds, one needs only milk from a nursing mother who just gave birth to a son, and dried blood.

The king then reaches a distant kingdom, where a prophetess knows about the krahlamaj flower, and explains the situation: the king of this distant kingdom prayed to God for a son, even if he is an angel from Heaven, and God granted him one; at the same time, a flower sprouted at the garden and, a few days later, the little baby grew wings and flew back to Heaven; the king becomes sad, but another angel explains that his son can be summoned back to Earth by placing shiny objects and petals from the krahlamaj flower in a room, and clean it from any piece of glass.

Sensing her beloved's disappearance, the youngest princess dresses in masculine attire, takes the krahlamaj flower she owned and rushes to the prince's distant kingdom.

Bahadin flies in the room in peacock form and is badly hurt by it, then makes a return for his kingdom in Mount Carmel.

The prince Pearls-on-Vines appears to him in a dream and tells him to pass along instructions to his daughter: to make a hole in the wall and sprinkle it with rosewater.

The youngest princess follows her sisters' suggestion and asks the king for a rosebush, and curses her father not to come back until he finds her gift.

The king goes to Mecca and buys gifts for his six elder daughters, but cannot seem to find the specific rosebush, and his camel does not move at all.

The king is advised by an old man to stop by a cave entrance, sacrifice a ram and wait until a white dog comes to take the meat.

The youngest princess waits in her room for the rosebush prince, talks to him all night and he flies away, leaving her some gold in the morning.

As time passes, her elder sisters begin to envy her good fortune, and place needles by the window.

The girl breaks open each one and produces a large palace, servants, carpets, and two vases, one of silver and the other of gold.

In the same night, Djebel Lakhdar flies in through Zineb's window in the shape of a green bird, dives into the vases of silver and gold, which are filled with water, and turn into a person.

Zineb discovers her lover is missing and goes after him: wearing male garments, she reaches his kingdom, where she learns prince Djebel Lakhdar is injured.

In the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, the Bluebird and Princess Florine make an appearance at Aurora's wedding celebration.