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Charles Perrault (/ p ɛ ˈ r oʊ / peh-ROH, US also / p ə ˈ r oʊ / pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale , with his works derived from earlier folk tales , published in his 1697 book ...
Charles Perrault (born January 12, 1628, Paris, France—died May 15/16, 1703, Paris) was a French poet, prose writer, and storyteller, a leading member of the Académie Française, who played a prominent part in a literary controversy known as the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns.
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French poet and writer, and one of the best-loved personalities of 17th century France. He is remembered today for his collection of fairytales published in 1697 under the title Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé.
May 16, 2019 · Charles Perrault was a 17th-century academic who wrote early versions of fairy tales like Cinderella that influenced the Brothers Grimm. The author of the original Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty only began to write fairy tales after he retired based on the stories he told his own children.
May 17, 2018 · PERRAULT, CHARLES (1628 – 1703), French poet, literary theoretician, and fairy tale writer. Charles Perrault belonged to a family of middle-class government functionaries, among whom was his brother Claude, an architect best remembered for his remodeled columns on the Louvre.
Charles Perrault was a seventeenth-century French author and literary theoretician who is credited with creating the fairy tale genre. Check out this biography to know more about his childhood, family life and achievements.
Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 in Paris, Perrault published several tales from the oral tradition that he modified with his own embellishments.
Famous for his Mother Goose Tales (or Tales from Past Times), Charles Perrault was a writer as well as a statesman, whom Colbert put in charge of Louis XIV’s artistic and literary policy as the Secretary of the Petite Académie, established in 1663.
Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628-May 16, 1703) Andrew Lang notes that "Charles Perrault did many things well, above all the things that he had not been taught to do, and he did best of all the thing which nobody expected him to have done. A vivid, genial and indomitable character and humor made him one of the best-liked men of his age."
Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author who started the literary genre of fairy tales. His best known tales include the following: Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) La Belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty) Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté (Puss in Boots) Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre
