Charles Perrault





Charles Perrault

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born
January 12, 1628 in Paris, France

died
May 16, 1703


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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...

Perrault's most famous stories are still in print today and have been made into operas, ballets (e.g., Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty), plays, musicals, and films, both live-action and animation.

The Brothers Grimm retold their own versions of some of Perrault's fairy tales.


Average rating: 4.11 · 6,050 ratings · 384 reviews · 201 distinct works
Perrault's Fairy Tales
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,823 ratings — published 1697 — 77 editions
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Cinderella
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,644 ratings — published 1954 — 82 editions
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Little Red Riding Hood
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1983 — 30 editions
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Puss in Boots
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,172 ratings — published 1901 — 57 editions
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Sleeping Beauty and Other C...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1975 — 24 editions
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Beauty and the Beast
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
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Sleeping Beauty
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions
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La Barbe Bleue
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1966 — 15 editions
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The Tales Of Mother Goose
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1977 — 21 editions
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Cinderella, And Other Tales...
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More books by Charles Perrault…
“To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.”
Charles Perrault, Sleeping Beauty and Other Classic Fairy Tales

“For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.”
Charles Perrault

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