Decided to look into an old edition of Little Red Riding Hood in the original language. Found via Google Books a 1754 edition.
Here is the ending with my free translation.
…
C’est pour mieux te manger, dit la farouche bête
– And this is to eat you up! – said the wild beast
En effet, cet indigne loup
Such is this despicable wolf!
la prend, l’avale tout d’un coup
took her and swallowed her in one gulp
sans qu’aucune plainte l’arrete
and no complaints stopped him
On voit ici que les enfans
We see here that children
Surtout les jeunes filles
Especially young girls
Belles, bien faites & gentiles
Beautiful, comely, clever ones!
Font fort mal d’écouter toutes fortes de gens
Do very poorly in listening to elders
Ce n’est pas une chose étrange
It’s no surprise
S’il en est tant que le loup mange
That the wolf eats them
Je dis les loups; car tous les loups
I say wolves; because not all wolves
Ne font pas de la même sorte;
are equally strong
Il en est d’un humeur accorte
Some have agreeable dispositions
Sans bruit, fans fiel & fans courroux
Quiet ones, but spiteful and horrendous,
Qui privés, complainsans & doux
Who, familiar and self-contentedly obliging, are nice
Suivent par tout les demoiselles
Follow all girls everywhere
Jusque dans les maisons, jusque dans les ruelles.
To their homes, to their streets
Mais hélas ! qui ne sçait que ces loups doucereux,
Alas! Who knew those most syrupy wolves
De tous les loups sont les plus dangereux.
Turn out to be the most dangerous
There is a literary translation, quite far from the original by an unknown author, but beautiful:
Little children especially young maidens,
Beauties and darlings,
When meeting all sorts of men on their ways,
Should not listen to deceitful words –
Otherwise the wolf might devour them.
I said a wolf! Wolves are countless,
But among them, there are other
Deceivers, so duplicitous,
That, sweetly emitting flattery,
Guard the honor of the maidens,
Accompany them on their strolls home,
See them safely off by the dark corners…
But the wolf, alas, the more modest he appears,
The more devious and terrible he always is!
In short, there were no lumberjacks! Everyone died in the end!
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