He met a young man in service to the King of the Woods and heard of his beautiful daughter Livorette, and so resolved to go there.
He soon became a favorite at the court because of his intelligence and courtesy, but Livorette still laughed at him, and being madly in love with her, Alidor soon became melancholy.
That night, after staying in the princess's bedroom until she slept, he went to the seashore and sat on a rock.
Grognette the fairy, a dwarf, came out and cursed him for sitting on her rock, saying she would make him suffer.
Then she had the dolphin conjure them out of the barrel to a magnificent island, and explain how she came to have a child, and then restore Alidor's sanity and make him handsome.
They could not recognize Alidor, or their daughter, or the child, who made them welcome, but Livorette revealed the truth.
Scholarship recognizes that French author and conteuse Henriette-Julie de Murat borrowed the theme to write her literary work Le Turbot.
[4][5] de Murat's tale is also considered a literary variant of the tale type ATU 675,[6][7] but, according to Melissa Hoffman, she drew the focus away from the male protagonist of the type to develop fairy Turbodine as the real protagonist of the story.