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Charles Perrault ( / pɛˈroʊ / peh-ROH, US also / pəˈroʊ / pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française.
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’).
Charles Perrault, né le 12 janvier 1628 à Paris et mort dans cette même ville le 16 mai 1703, est un homme de lettres français, célèbre pour ses Contes de ma mère l’Oye.
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 (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 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.
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.
