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In [[Charles Perrault]]'s original fairytale, the sisters were Cinderella's stepsisters,<ref name="dpp1">{{cite book|title=Cinderella|chapter=The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable |editor=Elizabeth Knowles|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2006|volume=A Dictionary of Phrase and Fable|isbn=978-0-19-860981-0|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t214.e1544|access-date=2009-05-27}}</ref> and are described as "proud and haughty" rather than ugly, though Cinderella is described as being "far lovelier than her sisters, though they were always dressed fashionably." The unnamed younger stepsister is described as being not as rude or spiteful as the elder, who is named Charlotte (Javotte in French).<ref name="jj1">"Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen. She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own, who were, indeed, exactly like her in all things." ... "Only the younger sister, who was not so rude and uncivil as the older one, called her Cinderella." {{cite book|url=http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html|last=Jacobs|first=Joseph|title=European Folk and Fairy Tales|publisher=[[G. P. Putnam's Sons]]|year=1916|pages=1–12}}</ref> The stepsisters are forgiven for their cruelty and Cinderella invites them to the palace to live with her, and she marries each of them to a wealthy lord.
In [[Brothers Grimm|Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm]]'s considerably much darker version of the tale, entitled ''[[Aschenputtel]]'' in German, the unnamed stepsisters are described as having "beautiful faces and fair skin, but hearts that were foul and black", and are portrayed in a much more malicious light than Perrault's version.<ref name="grimm1">{{cite book|author=Jacob Grimm|author2=Wilhelm Grimm|name-list-style=amp|translator=D. L. Ashliman|chapter=Aschenputtel|trans-chapter=Cinderella|date=2001|orig-year=1857|title=Kinder-und Hausmärchen|trans-title=Children's and Household Tales}}</ref> Indeed, the stepsisters are also traitors since, under the stepmother's advice, they attempt to trick the prince by cutting off their heels and toes to make the
In the opera [[La Cenerentola]] (1817) by [[Gioachino Rossini]] and [[Jacopo Ferretti]], the sisters are named Clorinda and Tisbe.
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