a banquet. The soldiers then drink until they pass out. The princess then seizes the opportunity to take the objects and expel the drunken trio from the palace. France The Brothers Grimm, in the annotations to their tales, mentioned the existence of "an old French fabliau" version, with no further information. Andrew Lang included a French variant in his The Green Fairy Book ("The Little Soldier"), which he obtained from Charles Deulin (titled Le Petit Soldat). Henry Carnoy collected a variant from Warloy-Baillon, titled La bague magique, where the protagonist enlarges the nose of the princess with a ring and a spell. Emmanuel Cosquin collected two variants from Lorraine: La bourse, le sifflet et le chapeau and a nameless variant in his annotations. Two variants from Brittany were collected by François-Marie Luzel (Le laboureur, le prêtre et le clerc, ou La bourse, la serviette et le manteau) and Paul Sébillot (Les cornes enchantées). Sébillot also published two abridged versions in Revue de traditions populaires: Les poires qui font les cornes and La serviette, le manteau et la bourse. Another variant was collected in Brittany by Adolphe Orain (Coeur de pigeon, "The pigeon's heart"): a poor boy is adopted by a fairy who lives in the woods. The fairy helps her adopted child to win the hand of the princess. Abbot Leopold Dardy collected two tales from Albret (Labrit) and Gascony: Pipéto ("Pipette") and Lous trés hillos de là hadéto ("Les trois filleuls de la fée"). In the 20th century, French ethnologist Genevieve Massignon collected another variant, from the Pyrenees, titled Les trois déserteurs. In a second variant, from Central France, collected by Henri Pourrat (La demoiselle au long nez; English: "The Damsel with the Long Nose"), the protagonist is given the magical objects by a miller's daughter, and at the conclusion of the tale uses the items to return to the humble maiden, choosing her over the haughty princess. A third modern variant, collected by Achille Millien (Le Roi de Russie et le roi d’Espagne), was among the tales collected from Morvan and Nivernais. Basque Country Wentworth Webster collected a Basque version called Dragon and, on a footnote, noted the parallel to John Francis Campbell's "The Three Soldiers" and its wide diffusion. Eastern Europe Folkloristic scholarship on Russian folk tales acknowledges the spread of the tale type "in East Slavic tradition". A tale from Bukovina, collected from Gypsy populations (The