Charles Perrault
Born	12 January 1628(1628-01-12) Paris, France1
Died	16 May 1703 (aged 75) Paris, France
Occupation	Author
Genres	Fantasy

Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, and whose best known tales include 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 vair (Cinderella), La Barbe bleue (Bluebeard), Le Petit Poucet (Hop o' My Thumb), Les Fées (Diamonds and Toads), La Marquise de Salusses ou la Patience de Griselidis (Patient Griselda), Les Souhaits ridicules (The Ridiculous Wishes), Peau d'Âne (Donkeyskin) and Riquet à la houppe (Ricky of the Tuft). Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. 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Cinderella ( French: Cendrillon, Slovak: Popoluška, German: Aschenputtel, Spanish: Cenicienta Bluebeard is the title character in a famous Fairy tale about a violent nobleman and his curious wife "Hop o' My Thumb" (French Le Petit Poucet) is a literary Fairy tale by Charles Perrault (1628-1703 Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French Fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies Griselda (anglicised to Grizzel and similar forms is a figure from certain Folklores whose name is eponymous for patience and obedience The Ridiculous Wishes or The Three Ridiculous Wishes is a French literary Fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Donkeyskin ( French: Peau d'Âne) is a French Fairy tale told by Charles Perrault. 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 Sleeping Beauty ( Спящая Красавица, Spyashchaya Krasavitsa) is a Ballet in a prologue and three acts Opus 66 by Pyotr

Biography

Perrault was born in Paris to a wealthy bourgeois family, son of Pierre Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city His brother, Claude Perrault, is remembered as the architect of the severe east range of the Louvre, built between 1665 and 1680. Though Claude Perrault (Paris September 25, 1613 - Paris 1688 is best known as the Architect of the eastern range of the Louvre in Paris The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre located in Paris is the world's most visited art museum a historic monument and a national museum of France Charles attended the best schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service. He took part in the creation of the Academy of Sciences as well as the restoration of the Academy of Painting. When the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres was founded in 1663, Perrault was appointed its secretary and serving Jean Baptiste Colbert's, finance minister to King Louis XIV. The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French Learned society devoted to the Humanities, founded in February 1663 Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( August 29, 1619 — September 6, 1683) served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under Early years Birth and ancestry Louis XIV was born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 5 1638 and bore the Heir apparent ^[1] He married in 1672 to Marie Guichon, 19, who died in 1678 after giving birth to a daughter and three sons. When Colbert died in 1683, he lost his pension as a writer.

He was a major participant in the French Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes), which pitted supporters of the literature of Antiquity (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of Louis XIV (the "Moderns"). The quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (querelle des Anciens et des Modernes was a literary and artistic quarrel that heated up in the early 1690s and shook Classical antiquity (also the classical era or classical period) is a broad term for a long period of cultural History centered on the Mediterranean Early years Birth and ancestry Louis XIV was born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 5 1638 and bore the Heir apparent He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de Louis le Grand (The Century of Louis the Great, 1687) and Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes (Parallel between Ancients and Moderns, 1688–1692) where he attempted to prove the superiority of the literature of his century.

In 1695, when he was 62, he lost his post as secretary. He decided to dedicate himself to his children and published Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals (Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé) (1697), with the subtitle: Tales of Mother Goose (Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye). Mother Goose is a well-known figure in the Literature of Fairy tales and Nursery rhymes Mother Goose is best known in the United States, in the Its publication made him suddenly widely-known beyond his own circles and marked the beginnings of a new literary genre, the fairy tale. A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving He had actually published it under the name of his last son (born in 1678), Pierre (Perrault) Darmancourt, (Armancourt was the name of a property he bought for him), probably fearful of criticism from the "Ancients". ^[2] In the tales, he used images from around him, such as the Chateau Ussé for Sleeping Beauty and in Puss-in-Boots, the Marquis of the Chateau d'Oiron, and contrasted his folktale subject matter, with details and asides and subtext drawn from the world of fashion. The Château d'Ussé is located in the commune of Rigny-Ussé in the Indre-et-Loire département, in France The Château de Oiron is located in Oiron, in the Deux-Sèvres département of western France. He died in Paris in 1703 at age 75.

See also

• Madame d'Aulnoy
• The Brothers Grimm wrote their own versions of some of Perrault's stories. Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville Baronne d'Aulnoy (1650/1651&ndash 4 January 1705) was a French Writer known for her Fairy tales The Brothers Grimm ( German: Die Gebrüder Grimm) Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,

External links

• SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
• Biography, Bibliography (in French)
• Works by Charles Perrault at Project Gutenberg
• Great resource to introduce young children to Perrault Fairy Tales.
•   "Charles Perrault". Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.  

Notes

1. ^ Sideman, B. B. : "The World's Best Fairy Tales", page 831. The Reader's Digest Association, 1967.
2. ^ F. Collin, Charles Perrault, le fantôme du XVIIe siècle, Draveil, Colline, 1999.