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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’).
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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 .
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.
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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- May 16, 1703
- January 12, 1628
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.
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.
