The immediate success of Galland's version with the French public may have been because it coincided with the vogue for "contes de fées" ('fairy stories'). This fashion began with the publication of Madame d'Aulnoy's "Histoire d'Hypolite" in 1690. D'Aulnoy's book has a remarkably similar structure to the "Nights", with the tales told by a female narrator. The success of the "Nights" spread across Europe and by the end of the century there were translations of Galland into English, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Russian, Flemish and Yiddish.