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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, French poet, prose writer, and storyteller, who played a prominent part in a literary controversy known as the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. He is best remembered for his collection of fairy stories for children, ‘Contes de ma mere l’oye’ (1697; ‘Tales of Mother Goose’).
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.
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.
Charles Perrault was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, and whose best known tales, offered as if they were pre-existing folk tales, include: Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Bluebeard, Hop o' My Thumb), Diamonds and Toads, Patient Griselda, The Ridiculous Wishes...
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A folklorist widely considered the inventor of Mother Goose and the Fairy Tales genre, Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French writer who created a remarkable collection of stories under the name of his son, which became known by its subtitle, Tales of My Mother Goose (1695).
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."
Nov 1, 2005 · Fairy Tales and Folklore at SILS: Charles Perrault. Books. Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France by by Virginia Haviland. Illus. by Roger Duvoisin. Call Number: J398 Perrault. Publication Date: 1959. Stories are: The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Puss and Boots, Beauty and the Beast, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood and Drakestail.
