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Seconding jormis, that's definitely it, although you'd probably know it under its English name of Once Upon a Time, as here: https://web.archive.org/web/20020203035550/http://abc.net.au/children/show/shows/show_no.htm#once
Did this show air on HBO in the 90's? I remember some sort of fairy tales for adults showing on that channel and being too young to watch it.
@jormis29 YES! That was it! the moment the music started I knew you found the same show I remembered! I had no idea it was french originally! I've been wondering about this show for years thank you.
There was a lot of French cartoons on the ABC like Mot or Orson and Olivia or Albert the Fifth Musketeer
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I have this vague memory of a tv series airing short animations in the late 90s early 2000s, they were all adaptations of fairy tales and I think each one was stylistically unique, One episode had the fairy tale of "The Nightingale" which was in a sort of cyberpunk aesthetic i think?? The episode i remember the clearest was the Pied Piper of Hamelin, it was in a grungy city setting and when the piper takes the children away at the end to punish the adults for not paying him they disappear into a graffiti mural on the wall in a subway. I live in australia so chances are it was a canadian production, we got a lot of those on tv for some reason