The Dirty Shepherdess is a French fairy tale collected by Paul Sébillot.
She made herself ugly, so that a farmwife would not be unready to lease her, and wore beggar's clothing.
The prince, hunting, saw her, and asked who the beautiful woman was who tended the sheep, garnering much ridicule.
The prince fell ill with longing, and said that only a loaf of bread baked by the shepherdess would cure him.
When he ate it, he found the ring and declared he would marry only the woman whose finger it fitted.