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Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier (niece) 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. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published ...
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. He is best remembered for his collection of fairy stories ...
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Oct 10, 2016 · Sleeping Beauty. The Frog Prince. Rapunzel (note, this is believed to have been adapted from the original tale ‘Persinette’ by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force) 2. Charles Perrault. Charles Perrault was a French writer who lived in the 1600s and wrote stories inspired by folk tales.
May 16, 2019 · The evergreen stories written by Charles Perrault are still told to children today as they're tucked into bed at night. Wikimedia CommonsCharles Perrault, the father of fairytales and the first version of Cinderella. For centuries, fairytales have been a part of the bedtime tradition. Children around the world have long been tucked into bed ...
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. [ 1 ] Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the ...
The fairy-tale was influenced by the story of Petrus Gonsalvus [9] as well as Ancient Greek stories such as "Cupid and Psyche" from The Golden Ass, written by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in the second century AD, and "The Pig King", an Italian fairy-tale published by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola around 1550.
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fairy tale, wonder tale involving marvellous elements and occurrences, though not necessarily about fairies. The term embraces such popular folktales (Märchen, q.v.) as “Cinderella” and “Puss-in-Boots” and art fairy tales (Kunstmärchen) of later invention, such as The Happy Prince (1888), by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde.
