 d'Aulnoy's tales for the stage, noted that the tale is very close to "Beauty and the Beast".As pointed by fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes, the tale of "The Ram" or "The Royal Ram" is classified as Aarne-Thompson-Uther ATU 425, "The Quest for The Lost Husband", stories where a girl or princess is betrothed to a monstrous bridegroom, a la "Beauty and the Beast".French folklorists Paul Delarue and Marie-Thérese Teneze, in their joint catalogue of French folk and fairy tales, classify "Le Mouton", according to Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, as ATU type 725, "The Dream", with elements of ATU 923, "Love Like Salt" and ATU 425, "Quest for the Lost Husband".